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With the development of technology,many concerns and troubles have been broached when people are attached to digital devices.In the article “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price”，Matt Richtel records troubles that the Campbells encountered and puts forward several scientific researches on multitasking.He argues that digital technology influences negatively on people’s well-being.On the one hand, he claims that the flood of messages brought by the internet lead to distraction,on the other hand ,he figures out that the digital devices can be addictive to some extent,which,combined with distraction, does great harm to working efficiency,health and even the society if not being controlled. First and foremost,Matt enhances that burying oneself in struggling with deluge of data can result in distraction.In other word, people can’t concentrate in an message flood.To validate his point,the author takes the families of Mr.Campbell for example.Mr. Campbell,who devotes himself in checking endless e-mails to keep up with the latest information,dramatically overlooked one of his most important e-mail message.Scientists say that juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. Researchers did plenty of experiments including distinguishing moved rectangles,differentiating vowels from consonants and then odd from even numbers.Surprisingly,the multitaskers did a significantly worse job than the non-multitaskers. They drew a conclusion that the multitaskers were shown to be less efficient at juggling problems.More sensitive though the multitaskers seem to be to incoming information,they couldn’t clam themselves down to focus on a single thing on account of less feeling of reward for putting older,more valuable information to work.That perfectly explains why people exposed to large amount of information like Mr.Campbell let the e-mail sliding from his hands—he always fix his eyes on the next e-mail.
