Continuous Partial Attention

Continuous Partial Attention = "the increasing inability and undesire to pay full attention to just one task, item or person and instead continually scan for other opportunity… while waiting for the next interruption" (http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/03/08/e-tech-day-1-attention-as-currency-aphrodisiac/)

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