From TFA: Wired.com: The subtitle of your book predicts a "coming dark age." Do you really believe this? Jackson: Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the

From TFA: Wired.com: The subtitle of your book predicts a "coming dark age." Do you really believe this? 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. The translation: Wired.com: The subtitle of your book predicts a "coming dark age." Do you really believe this? Jackson: Of course not. But I was hoping to sell more books that way.