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Maggie Jackson
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Distracted: Q&A with Maggie Jackson
Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and former columnist for The Boston Globe. She wrote Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (Prometheus Books, 2009) and What’s Happening to Home: Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age (Sorin Books, 2002). In your latest book you prophesy the coming of a […]
Recovering Focus in a Distracted Time
Life in twenty-first century America is distracting. Thanks to the ubiquitous nature of media, and countless interruptions from beeping gadgets, it’s becoming difficult not merely to finish a book, but perhaps even a thought. On this program Michael Horton discusses this new culture of distraction with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention […]
