Maggie Jackson > Quotes

“we must painstakingly learn and keep striving to retain the ever-difficult art of focus. Otherwise, in a sense, we cede control to the environment,”
― Maggie Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

“We are on the verge of losing our capacity as a society for deep, sustained focus. In short, we are slipping toward a new dark age.
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― Maggie Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

“We take the faceless at face value now.”
― Maggie Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

“only 30 percent of college graduates can understand a simple document such as a food label, down from 40 percent a decade ago, and nearly 57 percent of Americans don't read a single book a year.5”
― Maggie Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age