Out to lunch

Texting while driving and not paying attention

The week before last, two Northwest pilots overshot Minneapolis, their destination, by a hundred and fifty miles, apparently oblivious of their instruments and their internal clocks, as well as of a barrage of increasingly desperate radio calls from air-traffic control. Afterward, they explained that they’d logged onto their personal laptop computers and become so engrossed—not in FarmVille or porn, or even good old off-line activity, such as a ... Full Story »

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3.9
by Kristin Gorski - Nov. 3, 2009

An intelligent, witty treatment of a sign of the times: being consumed by technology-based tasks while piloting a large passenger plane, and forgetting when to land. Solid sociological context. Great insights from experts.

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