If you ask a random selection of people why we're all so distracted these days - so constantly in a state of what a researcher for Microsoft, Linda Stone, has called "continuous partial attention" - you'll get a somewhat different answer than you would have gotten thirty years ago. Then it would have been, "Because we are addicted to television." Fifteen years ago it would have been, "Because we are addicted to the Internet." But now it's, "Because we are addicted to our smartphones."
All of these answers are both right and wrong.
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