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Author: Maggie Jackson
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ISBN: 1591027489

Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

Foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben Reader

Do you text during family dinners or read e-mails during meetings? Does your spouse learn about your day from Facebook? Do you get news about the world by scanning online headlines while also doing something else?
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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. We are less and less able to pause, reflect, and deeply connect.
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