This is effectively what this study commission by HP says. Although old news, it recently made it into business 2.0 “dumbest moments in business. Apparently smoking pot has less of an impact on you than using a blackberry and receiving phone calls all at the same time.

This one caught my eye not because it was dumb but that I wonder if this is a generational thing. I have no doubt that my kids and other teenagers can probably run circles around me in things like video games or other action related online games. I also think that the next generation is growing up in a much more wired, always-on, and multi-tasking environment, with your phone, your IM, your TV and your browser (and maybe a game or so) all on at the same time.

Outside of the natural bias of an IQ test, I have to wonder if this is not simply a matter of a generational thing and that as we get older we become less suited for multi-tasking anyway and hopefully our experience will aid us in becoming more efficient and effective for what we lack in vitality in energy?