Do you have CPA?

I am not talking about a Certified Public Accountant. I am talking about Continuous Partial Attention. I read an article the other day in Newsweek about this. The person being intereviewed was Linda Stone former VP of Microsoft. She recently gave a keynote address at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference with a title called "The *Real* Aphrodisiac".

The dramatic increase in handheld devices has led to this ability to constantly have access to the internet to messaging and to overall communication. The prevalence of Blackberries, Sidekicks, and SMS devices has made the sight of a full grown adult hunched over a little piece of plastic common place. In years past only young children and teenagers would give Gameboys and handheld game devices that much attention.