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« Peeking under the hood at Amazon.com | Main | The coming Internet consolidation » Wednesday, September 27, 2006Multitasking goes mainstreamWhen it comes to media consumption, multitasking is rapidly becoming mainstream. The trend is an inevitable response to proliferating content, Jonathan F. Miller, the chairman and chief executive of AOL, told the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference this morning. A generation ago, the primary media choices were television, radio, newspapers, books, and magazines. Today's choices include everything from weblogs to podcasts to Internet video. "What has not changed is the number 24," Miller said. "There's still 24 hours in the day. What that means is something has to give, something has to change." And, in fact, Internet time is growing at the expense of television and other media, he said, driven by the penetration of broadband, the growth of Internet video, and the expanded role of search. But many consumers, especially younger ones, are accessing multiple media simultaneously. As exhibit A, Miller cited his nine-year-old son who typically engages in five or six instant messaging conversations at the same time while having two websites up and listening to television in the background. "And if you ask him what he's doing," Miller said, "he'll say, 'homework.'" Posted by at 09:35 AM
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