Pete Quilly at the Adult ADD Strengths blog wrote a humorous and interesting post yesterday titled "Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Center."  He contends that the abilities to multi-task, be hyper focused on tasks of interest, get creative in the face of boredom and rapidly consume information are all perfectly suited to tech work.  I found the post via LiveMarks, a veritable shrine to ADD.

It could just as easily be asked whether our increasingly high tech world effects our brains in ways similar to what's called ADD.  Perhaps the fact that some people are far more inclined than others  to swim joyfully in the electronic sea of information is proof that not everyone is impacted by ubiquitous tech in the same way.

Meanwhile over at the Globe and Mail, Carloyn Abraham reports that "a new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable."  Of course mental tests are inevitably subjective, but I find this interesting none the less.

Does it all still beg the chicken and egg question?  I don't know.  I'm ready to make note of it all and move on to something else already!