O’Reilly Radar > Supernova 2005: Attention

Linda Stone was a speaker at the Supernova 2005 conference (O’Reilly Radar > Supernova 2005: Attention). While working at Microsoft Research she coined the phrase “continuous partial attention” to describe how we cope with technology and life.

Linda’s was perhaps the best talk of the conference. She definately hits the nerve for the overstimulated, overconnected folks. There are a few great points made:

• Email-free Fridays–originated in the UK. Folks may show a bit more creativity when they work without email.
• Dropping out of the online social networks to actually meet those same folks
• A developing trend to use technology to filter the noise from the flood of information that technology makes available.

I suppose this is really going to frustrate the marketing types perfecting their online sales pitches 😮