Our increasing demand to be continuously connected to all that exists in the world gives today's connection users a near omnipotent level of knowingness previously unfathomable for mere mortals.
And new products, like phones that are continuously connected to the Internet, have been slow to come to market.
Plenty of gamers, even in this age of cloud computing and continuously connected games consoles, just want to play alone.
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning.
Teruyasu Murakami of Nomura Research Institute believes that having things continuously connected to a network will open up new markets and new ways of living.
Given the iPad's larger battery capacity, Mr. Ashkenazi's designers were not concerned with having it continuously connected to the docking station to be recharged.
The security expert, Steven Gibson, said he feared that widespread use of Windows XP in its current form would create a powerful network communications standard that attackers could widely exploit, particularly as more consumers use high-speed phone lines or cable modems and keep their computers almost continuously connected to the Internet.
Branches of stairs and escalators continuously connect onwards and upwards, to the extent that you're never quite sure what altitude you might be at, how far from the street you have risen – or if, in fact, there was even a street to begin with.
We are supposed to be unable to see individual images appearing at this rate of 1/24th of a second – one of Stezaker's films is actually called Blind – unless they are continuously connected like a conventional film, and yet the opposite is apparently true.
