Maggie Jackson

Today uncertainty is a keystone, a mantra, a lament of our times, yet few understand the critical role that epistemic or psychological uncertainty plays in our cognitive lives. Being unsure, ie not-knowing, is a gadfly to higher-order thinking, a stepping stone to resilience, and a lever to finding the tempo and space we need to . . . read more

Thrilled! I am honored the 2018 edition of Distracted is the winner of the Media Ecology Association’s 2020 Dorothy Lee Award, one of the most prestigious book awards for works exploring technology and culture. Past winners include New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and UCLA media theorist Peter Lunenfeld.

In these challenging times, it’s important . . . read more

It’s easy to ignore the drumroll of scientific findings that reveal our own guilt in instigating the increasingly plagues of extreme weather. It’s easy to think of rising floods, temperatures, and pollution as far removed from our daily habits of idling the car to keep it warm or cool; running the AC when not really . . . read more

Here’s Part III of my recent interview with one of the UK’s leading environmentalists, Rob Hopkins, about the  fragmentation of attention in modern life. In this excerpt, I talk about the three ways that I personally guard and nurture my capacity for focus. Some of my best practices might surprise you!

Hopkins: I wondered, having done . . . read more

Recently, I did an interview with one of the UK’s leading environmentalists, Rob Hopkins, about the  fragmentation of attention in modern life. Hopkins is part of a growing wave of green thinkers who rightly worry about how technology is affecting our ability to solve big-picture problems such as climate change. Here’s a second excerpt from our . . . read more

Presa-Diretta – Maggie Jackson Interview – from Iperconnessi – Oct. 15, 2018 Narrator: “Nine years ago, when we were full of enthusiasm about the arrival of smart phones, Maggie Jackson, working for the Boston Globe, the major newspaper in Boston, wrote a prophetic book, which has just been republished, about distraction and its impact on . . . read more

Are we using our technologies wisely?

That’s one of the points that I discussed recently in an interview for the intriguing new blog Human-Autonomy Sciences, curated by two leading psychology researchers on human-machine interaction, Clemson University’s Richard Pak and Microsoft Senior Design Research Manager Arathi Sethumadhavan.

Here is an excerpt from our e-conversation:

Pak — What does the future . . . read more