The Dangers of Continuous Partial Attention and Software's Role in It

Continuous partial attention is a state where people are never quite focused on any one thing that is becoming more normal in today's world/nGetting interrupted takes 23 minutes to fully recover from according to research from the University of California at Irvine/nSoftware has contributed to the problem of distraction and can also be used to solve it/nThere can be unintended consequences to technologies even with good intentions