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Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy
bonch writes "Reviews of Google Wave are out, and opinions are that it has potential as a development platform but is noisy to use for real-time communication. Robert Scoble calls it overhyped, claiming it's useful for little more than personal IM or small-scale project collaboration. He complains about the noisiness of tracking dozens of people chatting him at once in real-time and calls trying to use it a 'productivity killer' compared to simpler mediums like email and Twitter."
...we aren't designed to heavily multitask.
On a completely unrelated note, and with full awareness of the offtopic mods landslide about to come, how about if, in these times of intense attacks on the very foundations of scientific thought, we more closely watch our language and opt for using "we haven't evolved to heavily multitask"? It's certainly what we intend to say anyways.