{"id":13103,"date":"2012-03-28T19:20:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=13103"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:25","slug":"the-continuous-partial-attention-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/03\/the-continuous-partial-attention-generation","title":{"rendered":"The Continuous Partial Attention Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostremote.com\/2012\/03\/28\/the-new-second-screen-generation-in-a-single-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cory<\/a> comes this photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50865813@N06\/6878930546\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Macklin<\/a> of his son and friends watching the Super Bowl last month:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/viewing_new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are several interesting things about this photo (spelled out in Cory&#8217;s post), and I now suspect the kid in the back may be the only one actually facing the television, but compare what &#8220;watching&#8221; looks like for this generation to what it looked like a few generations ago:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/viewing_old.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"323\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stark.<\/p>\n<p>They are barely even related activities anymore. One is focused, intense audio\/visual consumption, while the other is almost incidental exposure. Cinematic professionals must hate this.<\/p>\n<p>I still try to keep digital distractions to a minimum when I&#8217;m watching a favorite show or sporting event, but I feel like that is rapidly becoming an attitude of the past. How short will our attention spans get before we realize that this may be a problem? Or is the problem imaginary and our brains will adjust or even thrive under these new circumstances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Cory comes this photo from Scott Macklin of his son and friends watching the Super Bowl last month: There are several interesting things about this photo (spelled out in Cory&#8217;s post), and I now suspect the kid in the back may be the only one actually facing the television, but compare what &#8220;watching&#8221; looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}