The Rise of Cognitive Incoherence

We live in a world of continuous partial attention (CPA), info chunks, multi-tasking and shortened time-spans. What are the implications of this on our thinking? In my view this might lead to both positive and negative effects. Positive is more lateral and associative thinking and pattern recognition. Considering the negative results I can imagine it leads to a more incoherent kind of thinking and behavior. While we need systemic, integrated and holistic thinking to solve urgent and complex global issues, we seem to go the other way. I wonder how this will progress.