“In many ways the digital age suits us - humans are highly sociable, novelty seeking, ever exploring and highly visual. Yet wedding ourselves to technology fully immerses us in a narrowed world where values and choices are circumscribed. The numeric, computational, instant and measurable are valued. The mysterious, messy and awkward biological realms are degraded. By living too completely in a computer-centric world, we risk becoming sated with the most faceless, thinnest means of communication ever invented. We also risk becoming shallow thinkers, unable to create or contemplate in the deepest sense of the words. I’m concerned about the drying up of our inner lives, the loss of our ability to imagine, to daydream, to wrestle with a problem, to intuit.”

— Maggie Jackson, author of ‘Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.’