Continuous Partial Attention

ubercombatwombat writes "While answering my softphone and checking my mail simultaneously I ran across the following article by Steven Levy. In it he writes about a speaker named Linda Stone and something she called "Continuous Partial Attention." I finally had a phrase for the reason I turn off wi-fi, asked people to turn off their cell phones and put away their crackberrys when I am speaking to a group. I suffer from this too. Starting today I am going to do something about it, brb."

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Re:too kind a description

[DoraLives]

Sorry, sunshine, some people actually do need to be continually accessible.

I'm calling bullshit on that. And don't even get me started on members of the medical profession, ok? They're right down there with lawyers, preachers, politicians, and all the rest of those self-important bastards who all live by one set of (selfish) rules, even as they attempt to impose a second set of (sacrificing) rules on everyone else. Take your little gizmo and shove it, cellphone boy, 'cause nobody else really gives a shit.