Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
EN USISBN: 1591027489 bzw. 9781591027485, in Englisch, Prometheus Books, gebraucht.
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computers and technology,education and reference,engineering,future of computing,health fitness and dieting,history,politics and social sciences,popular culture,psychology,psychology and counseling, Foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben ReaderDo 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? Welcome to the land of distraction. 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. In Distracted, journalist Maggie Jackson ponders our increasingly cyber-centric world and fears we're entering a dark age of interruption that will render us unable to think critically, work creatively or cultivate meaningful relationships. Jackson warns of what can happen when we lose our ability to sustain focus and erode our capacity for deep attention the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. The implications for a healthy society are stark. Societal ADD will adversely affect parenting, marriages, personal safety, education and even democracy. And yet we can recover our powers of focus through a renaissance of attention. Neuroscience is just now decoding the workings of attention, with its three pillars of focus, awareness, and judgment, and revealing how these skills can be sha.
computers and technology,education and reference,engineering,future of computing,health fitness and dieting,history,politics and social sciences,popular culture,psychology,psychology and counseling, Foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben ReaderDo 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? Welcome to the land of distraction. 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. In Distracted, journalist Maggie Jackson ponders our increasingly cyber-centric world and fears we're entering a dark age of interruption that will render us unable to think critically, work creatively or cultivate meaningful relationships. Jackson warns of what can happen when we lose our ability to sustain focus and erode our capacity for deep attention the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. The implications for a healthy society are stark. Societal ADD will adversely affect parenting, marriages, personal safety, education and even democracy. And yet we can recover our powers of focus through a renaissance of attention. Neuroscience is just now decoding the workings of attention, with its three pillars of focus, awareness, and judgment, and revealing how these skills can be sha.
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Distracted
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Distracted
EN PB USISBN: 9781591027485 bzw. 1591027489, in Englisch, Penguin Random House Llc, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
EN PB NWISBN: 9781591027485 bzw. 1591027489, in Englisch, Prometheus Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
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Distracted~~Maggie-Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Paperback.
Distracted~~Maggie-Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Paperback.
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Distracted
EN NWISBN: 9781591027485 bzw. 1591027489, in Englisch, Prometheus Books, neu.
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