Because we have so much going on at all times, we can never fully immerse ourselves in anything. In the age of perpetual stimulation and distraction, we’ve become so scatterbrained that technology thought leader Linda Stone coined the phrase continuous partial attention (CPA). Stone explains it as “an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always on high alert when we pay continuous partial attention. . . . In a 24/7, always-on world, continuous partial attention used as our dominant attention mode contributes to a feeling
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