Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention and Email Apnea

With Isabel Walcott Draves “We kept looking for multitaskers’ advantages in this study. But we kept finding only disadvantages. We thought multitaskers were very much in control of information. It turns out, they were just getting it all confused.” — Eyal Ophir, Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, Stanford University quoted in the New York Times, 8/30/09

The results of the recent Stanford study didn’t come as a surprise to Linda Stone, the high-tech writer and consultant who coined the term “continuous partial attention” in 1997 and was featured in one of Supernova’s Network Age Briefing, “Disconnecting in the Network Age.”

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