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The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World - The Atlantic
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A longtime tech executive Linda Stone worked on emerging technologies at Apple and then Microsoft Research in the 198 s and 9 s. Fifteen years ago she coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the modern predicament of being constantly attuned to everything without fully concentrating on anything. Since then she has frequently written and lectured about the challenges of living in an always on hyperconnected world. A longtime tech executive James Fallows You re well known for the idea of continuous partial attention. Why is this a bad thing Linda Stone Continuous partial attention is neither good nor bad. We need different attention strategies in different contexts. The way you use your attention when you re writing a story may vary from the way you use your attention when you re driving a car serving a meal to dinner guests making love or riding a bicycle. The important thing for us as humans is to have the capacity to tap the attention str...
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