DISTRACTED: THE EROSION OF ATTENTION AND THE COMING DARK AGE

Book ID/图书代码： 04332807B18938

English Summary/英文概要： In this gripping exposé 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在這資訊爆炸時代，對於出現的大量資訊通常只能大略瀏覽。資訊常常是多到來不及吸收，現代人早已失去了對事物的專著能力。正因為不再擁有對事物深入的專著力，使得科學工藝在各方面迅速成長的同時，現代社會卻進入了黑暗時期，文化變得扁平而淺薄。作者從許多面向來探討專著力對於社會發展的重要性以及現代人失去專著力將會面臨各種不良後果產生。
美國首屈一指的環境作家Bill Mckibben (《大自然的終點》The End of Nature,1989)着序推薦。

Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers Weekly In this richly detailed and passionately argued book, Jackson (What’s Happening to Home?) warns that modern society’s inability to focus heralds an impending Dark Age—an era historically characterized by the decline of a civilization amid abundance and technological advancement. Jackson posits that our near-religious allegiance to a constant state of motion and addiction to multitasking are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention—the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress and stunting society’s ability to comprehend what’s relevant and permanent. The author provides a lively historical survey of attention, drawing upon philosophy, the impact of scientific innovations and her own experiences to investigate the possible genetic and psychological roots of distraction. While Jackson cites modern virtual life (the social network Facebook and online interactive game Second Life), her research is largely mired in the previous century, and she draws weak parallels between romance via telegraph and online dating, and supernatural spiritualism and a newfound desire to reconnect. Despite the detours (a cultural history of the fork?), Jackson has produced a well-rounded and well-researched account of the travails facing an ADD society and how to reinvigorate a renaissance of attention. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review “Prescient when it originally appeared, Distracted is now MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER. This new edition deserves your full attention.” – Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage

“Maggie Jackson has an ear fine-tuned to what is important in the culture—to the trends that matter! She writes beautifully, in a way that commands attention, but when there is poetry in her subject she makes sure that it gets its due. I’m a fan!” —Sherry Turkle, MIT Professor, and author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together

About the Author/作者介绍： Maggie Jackson (New York, NY) is an award-winning author and journalist who is a contributing columnist at The Boston Sunday Globe. A former foreign correspondent and national columnist for the Associated Press, she has been interviewed on National Public Radio and has contributed to the New York Times, Working Mother, and many other national publications. She is the author of What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age and has been interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor, on television, and on dozens of other radio shows.
Maggie Jackson是《波士頓周日環球報》（The Boston Sunday Globe）專欄作家。替《紐約時報》(New York Times)等多家媒體撰寫文章。前一本作品為What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age.
Maggie Jackson是《波士頓周日環球報》（The Boston Sunday Globe）專欄作家。替《紐約時報》(New York Times)等多家媒體撰寫文章。前一本作品為What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age

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