Always-on Technology: Are We Adapting, or Losing Focus?

Quote from the article: "No problem, says Rosie Navarro, 43, of San Francisco. As an executive assistant to a management consulting firm CEO, she feels "so much more productive as a result of always being connected, whether that's answering a quick question by e-mail or just knowing I'm caught up."

Now that's a shallow perspective. It's a false feeling of semi-omniscience. She wouldn't feel such a need to be "caught up" if it weren't for information technology driving her.

As an afterthought... most devices can be turned off and lived without. The one thing most of us can't avoid is the automated answering devices that most companies employ now. This is more stressful to me than "other" information age technology. And when you do finally get someone, as opposed to a machine, they're likely in another country representing a company that supposedly does business here in the U.S.