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Maggie Jackson

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, thinks that all those little annoyances may in fact add up to spell the end of civilization as we know it. Hear her cure for an attention-deficit-society.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Author Maggie Jackson says in her new book Distracted that today’s tendency to multi-tasking has us headed for a new Dark Ages, as human beings lose their ability to pay close attention. Plus, distraction on the highway. What's the effect of road signs on a driver's attention span: it's different ...