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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (utgåvan 2009)

av Maggie Jackson, Bill McKibben (Förord)

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We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at the Yahoo headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we tend to communicate even with our most intimate friends and family via instant messaging, email, and fleeting face-to-face moments that are rescheduled a dozen times, then punctuated when they do occur with pings and beeps and more multitasking. Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. In this new world, something is amiss. And that something is - attention. Journey with Maggie Jackson as she explores the many ways in which we are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained attention-the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its erosion, she introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. She takes us from the nineteenth-century roots of our mobile, virtual multitasking ways into a darkening future of snippets, glimpses, skimming, McThinking, and mistrust. Taking us beyond "Blink and Faster", Jackson makes it clear that if we continue down this road of scattered attention spans and widespread societal ADD, we will be in danger of squandering and devaluing the essence of humanity, and our technological age could ultimately slip into cultural decline. But we are just as capable of igniting a renaissance of attention by strengthening our varied powers of focus and perception, the keys to judgement, memory, morality, and happiness. She describes some of the exciting new scientific research that shows how these skills can be nurtured. "Distraction" is unique in being simultaneously an original exposé of the multifaceted nature of attention, an engaging and often surprising portrait of post-modern life, and a compelling roadmap for cultivating sustained focus and nurturing a more enriched and literate society. Pull over, hit the pause button, silence the ringer, and prepare to encounter our land of distraction-this may be your first, and maybe your last, chance to really fathom it.--From publisher information.… (mer)
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Titel:Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Författare:Maggie Jackson
Andra författare:Bill McKibben (Förord)
Info:Prometheus Books (2009), Paperback, 327 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
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Note: I accessed a digital review copy through Edelweiss.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
I didn't even finish this--I kept getting distracted :) Seriously, I heard the author on the radio and I don't think the book added too much to what I already heard. I guess I'm also already tired of this subject though I agree with much of what the author says. ( )
  sharwass | Apr 25, 2013 |
The book presents a fascinating and frightening collection of evidence for our distracted lives; distracted by split focus, mobility that erodes our sense of space, involvement in the digital world while loosing contact with the real. Then the book looks at the effects of this distraction, alienation and an inability to think deeply. An ability to focus and give attention are two major losses.

I thought the book was a wake up call that few will probably notice. Realistically, I doubt there's much hope for society but it did give me a reminder for my own life. I found it an excellent book ( )
  snash | Mar 1, 2010 |
Great book in explaining all the ways we have become distracted and continue to go over the edge into an ADD/ADHD dark age, but the author neglects solution and/or application of the argument entirely except to say be more attentive. ( )
  revslick | Jun 9, 2009 |
Jackson's balanced treatment of attention is an easy read and has, I think, something for everyone. She starts with descriptions of long-distance virtual relationships in the telegraph era and continues through today's reformulations of kinship and place/space. She then outlines the science of attention and proposes that we can create a "renaissance of attention," if only we put our minds to it.

This book is full of anecdotes, insights, and pointers to further resources. I suggest reading it with a notebook.
  chellerystick | Jun 7, 2009 |
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We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at the Yahoo headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we tend to communicate even with our most intimate friends and family via instant messaging, email, and fleeting face-to-face moments that are rescheduled a dozen times, then punctuated when they do occur with pings and beeps and more multitasking. Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. In this new world, something is amiss. And that something is - attention. Journey with Maggie Jackson as she explores the many ways in which we are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained attention-the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its erosion, she introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. She takes us from the nineteenth-century roots of our mobile, virtual multitasking ways into a darkening future of snippets, glimpses, skimming, McThinking, and mistrust. Taking us beyond "Blink and Faster", Jackson makes it clear that if we continue down this road of scattered attention spans and widespread societal ADD, we will be in danger of squandering and devaluing the essence of humanity, and our technological age could ultimately slip into cultural decline. But we are just as capable of igniting a renaissance of attention by strengthening our varied powers of focus and perception, the keys to judgement, memory, morality, and happiness. She describes some of the exciting new scientific research that shows how these skills can be nurtured. "Distraction" is unique in being simultaneously an original exposé of the multifaceted nature of attention, an engaging and often surprising portrait of post-modern life, and a compelling roadmap for cultivating sustained focus and nurturing a more enriched and literate society. Pull over, hit the pause button, silence the ringer, and prepare to encounter our land of distraction-this may be your first, and maybe your last, chance to really fathom it.--From publisher information.

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