post-multitasking adaptive behaviour
Continuous partial attention is a post-multitasking adaptive behaviour.
This is a quote from Linda Stone’s address at the Supernova Conference earlier this year.
YOU MUST read the whole article here. This is NOT an option. As you’d hear on a Dave Slusher EGC podcast intro. - “You should listen to this because this concerns you“.
Linda points out what she observes as 20 year “cycles” of attention that is largely a cultural phenomenon. The cycles outlined are 1945-1965, 1965-1985, 1985-2005 which puts us right on the cusp of a new cycle.
This is why I say that if you are at all interested in being connected in a meaningful way in the future and the role technology is going to play in that, and you want to play a pro-active role, you need to read the article.
I’m going to be reading and re-reading this until I get a clearer grasp of it - and more particular what it means for me personally. On this eve of a new year I expect over a short period of time it will offer me fuel for new direction, new resolutions and new goals.
Bring it on!
[...] Supernova article: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/supernova_2005_2.html Linda Stone: http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/SCS2005/speakers/Stone.aspx My blog post: http://dnwallace.com/blog/2005/12/31/post-multitasking-adaptive-behaviour/ [...]
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