Dealing with an Always On IT Culture

In CWorld:  It is clearly a culture.  It is learned in school now, and at home, and utilizes multiple strata of communications and analysis and alerting capabilities.  It blurs the state of business versus personal activity.   Increasingly it uses assistant based technologies.  It is anywhere and anytime.  How do we cope with any system that gives the impression that we gain advantage by incrementally paying just a bit more attention?