"Continuous partial attention"

When is some attention, no attention at all? When we are monitoring our laptops, handhelds, cellphones, and trying to listen to a speaker, the partial attention is really a failure to commit. Another mother discusses this in her blog, and I liked what she said because she brings up McLuhan's suggestion that our senses are going to be altered by these devices. What are you doing as you read this?

tags technorati : sna attention_economy