Mar
22
2010
The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
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Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted.
Topic: The erosion of attention and the coming dark age.
Issues: The roots of an attention-deficit culture; why channeling our thoughts and ideas into outlines and bullet points is dangerous; how the tools we use shape and teach us; how the way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention.
