Distracted

In this gripping expose of our cyber-centric attention-deficient life journalist Maggie Jackson argues that we are eroding our capacity for deep attention and mindfulness - the building blocks of intimacy wisdom and cultural progress. The implications for a healthy society are stark.Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances we are nurturing a culture of diffusion and detachment. With our attention scattered among the beeps and pings of a push-button world we are less and less able to pause reflect and deeply connect.In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its losses Jackson introduces us to scientists cartographers marketers educators wired teens and even roboticists. She offers us a compelling wake-up call an adventure story and reasons for hope.As the author shows 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 shaped and taught. This is exciting news for all of us living in an age of overload.Pull over hit the pause button and prepare for an eye-opening journey. More than ever we cannot afford to let distraction become the marker of our time.