ETech 2006’s theme of “attention economy” is still resonating, as this article By Teresa Williams notes:

…Linda Stone, a former Microsoft executive, warned us as far back as the late 1990s that we were becoming victims of what she called “continuous partial attention.” She reiterated this theme as recently as March at the Emerging Technology Conference, insisting that by “staying tuned” to so many technologies at once we aren’t giving our full attention to anything.