To answer your question about what area of my life this comes up in most, I'll give you two: my closest relationships (romantic and very close friends) and my distant but important professional relationships.

In the close relationships, I tend to lose the forest for the trees. In my more distant professional relationships, I feel like I either tune out entirely for days at a time from these e-mails and social feeds because it's too much, or when I tune in, they take up way too much time and attention and I feel like I'm checking a box rather than enriching my life.

I personally, have made a career of this trend. In what you call partial blindness, as a human factors research I call sense-making and information overload. I spend most of my days in the weeds trying to design systems for workers that are overburdened with managing information. The proper fusion of information can offer a competitive advantage that is often sought by businesses ( for monetary gain) and governments (for military gain). To accomplish this I design systems, a combination of technologies and expected human interactions, that in unison operate harmoniously (theoretically atleast) to achieve a common goal. In my context, I work with emergency responders so the competitive advantage equates to faster decision making to achieve the common goal of saving lives.

My challenge to you, is to think of this: In what context or lens does this trend effect you the most? Perhaps the answer lies in what sparked this idea in the first place?