According to Linda Stone, a former Microsoft and Apple executive, this is the era of "continuous partial attention".

按照一位前Microsoft和Apple的主管Linda Stone的说法，这是一个“持续的局部注意力”时代。

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“Just being online means you have this continuous partial attention, or this sense that at any point in time, you can dip into the stream,” he says.

斯塔茨曼说到：“只要你挂在网上，那就意味着你是‘持续性局部注意力’的受害者，或者从这一意义上说，在任意时间点，你都可能沉迷到庞大的信息流中去”。

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The term “continuous partial attention” was coined by Linda Stone, a former Microsoft and Apple executive who studies and writes about the cognitive deficits that computer-users experience.

“持续性局部注意力”这一概念最早由琳达•斯通（Linda Stone）所提出。 她曾任微软和苹果公司经理，研究并撰写有关计算机用户所经历的认知缺陷报告。

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There's this great phrase, "continuous partial attention, " to describe what people do online.

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We're going to see the Internet facilitate continuous partial attention more and more for local issues, for political issues, for community events, for things happening in your social network.

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