I believe we have gone too far with the whole multi-tasking and having multiple things on the go. While it is useful at times to be able to multi-task the mere fact you are juggling/doing more than one thing at a time means you are not fully devoted to either.
In the work place the pressures these days mean that you have to multi-task. This surely means that the actual quality of work being done in general is not to the standard that it should be. I have seen it first hand where pieces have work that didn't get the undivided attention they needed are passed in when honestly they are below par in terms of quality.
I think society needs to slow down a little and definitely become more singular focused.
