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If you find that your smartphone and other devices demand too much attention and generally drive you bonkers, industry experts agree.

At Mobile World Congress this week, one of the biggest smartphone and tablet exhibitions, vendors unveiled hundreds of faster new devices and software features, but several industry executives dared to publicly state that what we need are fewer devices per person -- not more -- that won't interrupt us as much.

"We're starting to live in a world of interruption technology.... Isn't anybody questioning this?" said Hampus Jakobsson, former head of TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), a cutting-edge user interface design company, and now director of strategic alliances at BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. TAT was acquired by RIM in December to help RIM develop the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

In comments delivered before a standing-room-only crowd gathered to hear industry executives share their visions of the mobile innovations we'll see in 2020, Jakobsson intoned: "We're not talking to each other, but talking to devices. That's something we have to think about.... Do we want a future where people stare at screens or a future where people talk to each other?"

Computerworld has the details HERE!