[Los Angeles] Maggie Jackson: “Attention Must Be Paid”
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We have oceans of information at our fingertips, yet we
increasingly depend on sound bites and Yahoo headlines to
make sense of our world. We are networked as never before,
but connect via email, IM and fleeting glimpses of one
another. Increasingly, our culture is eroding our capacity
to pay attention - the building block of intimacy, wisdom
and cultural progress. The perils are clear: Can we as a
nation afford to cultivate an attention-deficient democracy,
economy, culture?
Join author and columnist Maggie Jackson as she shares
findings from her important new book, Distracted: The
Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. A timely
expose that has been compared to Rachel Carson's Silent
Spring, Distracted traces the roots of our culture of
distraction, details the costs of living this way, and
reveals how we can help recover our powers of focus.
Along with visiting CFI-L.A., Jackson will deliver a keynote speech at the UC Davis extension faculty's annual meeting this week and give a reading at Book Passage, an independent San Francisco bookstore. Distracted will come out in paperback in September. For more information, check out her website at www.maggie-jackson.com.
