Maggie Jackson
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Topics
Communication
Health & Wellness
Technology & Trends
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About Maggie Jackson - Award-winning Author and Speaker on Communication and Trends:
Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating coverage of U.S. social issues. Speaker on communication and life-work balance, she also writes the popular Balancing Acts column in the Sunday Boston Globe, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Gastronomica and on National Public Radio.
Her latest book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, details the steep costs of our current epidemic deficits of attention, while revealing the astonishing scientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus in a world of speed and overload. Her acclaimed first book, What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age, examined the loss of home as a refuge.
A former foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in Tokyo and London, Jackson has won numerous awards for her coverage of work-life issues, including the Media Award from the Work-Life Council of the Conference Board. In 2005-2006, she was a journalism fellow in child and family policy at the University of Maryland. A graduate of Yale University and the London School of Economics with highest honors, she lives in New York City with her family.
What Maggie Jackson Talks About:
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
We have oceans of information at our fingertips, yet we seek knowledge in Yahoo headlines glimpsed on the run. We are networked as never before, but we connect with friends and family via email and fleeting face-to-face moments that are rescheduled a dozen times.
Distracted is a gripping exposé of this hyper-mobile, cyber-centric, attention-deficient life. Day by day, we are eroding our capacity for deep attention— the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress. The implications for a healthy society are stark. And yet we can recover our powers of focus through a renaissance of attention. In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its losses, Maggie 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.
