4:30pm EST: This is a rescheduling of a guest we were to have on a couple of weeks ago and happy to finally have her on. Maggie Jackson believes that despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. Our attention is scattered among the beeps and pings of a push-button world, she says, and we are less and less able to pause, reflect and deeply connect. In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age,
Maggie Jackson wonders about our increasingly cyber-centric world and joins us to talk about it this afternoon.
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4:30pm EST: This is a rescheduling of a guest we were to have on a couple of weeks ago and happy to finally have her on. Maggie Jackson believes that despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. Our attention is scattered among the beeps and pings of a push-button world, she says, and we are less and less able to pause, reflect and deeply connect. In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Maggie Jackson wonders about our increasingly cyber-centric world and joins us to talk about it this afternoon.
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