Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.

WSJ: The Journeying Dyslexic's Lament

Most of us respond to e-mails and voice mail as soon as we have a message.

CNN: Experts: Goof off at work, read a book, ignore e-mail

Today's blazing fast chips make it possible for messages--whether e-mail, voice or video--to zigzag through wide swaths of spectrum without bumping into anyone else's message.

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