multi-tasking

"Technology has gone from sitting on a shelf to being on a person all day long."

and

"Multi-tasking used to be a way of getting things done. Now it's a state of mind."

and

"When they [students] aren't connected, they don't quite know what to do with themselves."
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Penn State University's counseling center asst. director, Ben Locke, quoted in an article in the Sept. 2006 Johns Hopkins Magazine on the "Multitasking State of Mind" by Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson