Next generation user experience is for kids. Kids are now the best multi-taskers ever thx to voice chat and console gaming. You are what you eat!
Keeping that edge in the technology sector, focusing on parallel workstreams — managing multiple tasks and still being a smooth operator, that is how a leader must keep up with a new workforce in a very fast paced field without resorting to becoming like Tony Montana in Scarface
Productivity enhancement can be just as calculated as other business domain skills required to be super star successful. Keeping that competitive edge in real-life games about success and money probably makes multi-tasking a pace nostalgic as a kid when you had to talk on your cell phone, chat over IM, send an email and finish a quest all in the next 5 minutes.
How multi-threaded can we go, how rich and intuitive can user interface designs be? — to push this “enhanced” human sense we are emerging as information search and retrieval junkies juicing cognition as fast as neuronal signals can transverse within the human body (thx McLuhan!)