Distracted

A quote from Maggie Jackson's book "Distracted" warning us about the consequences of indulging an overly technological lifestyle:

Consciously doing all we can to free ourselves from the last boundaries of space and time, we are ultimately trading our cultural and societal anchors for an age of glorious freedom, technological innovation - and darkness. As our attentional skills are squandered, we are plunging into a culture of mistrust, skimming, and a dehumanizing merging between man and machine. As we cultivate lives of distraction, we are losing our capacity to create and preserve wisdom and slipping toward a time of ignorance that is paradoxically born amid an abundance of information and connectivity. Our tools transport us, our inventions are impressive, but our sense of perspective and shared vision shrivel.