Brandon Keim interviews Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. Jackson:
Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we’ll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering.
Vaughan doesn’t buy it.
The Dish 