James Drogan

Your attention is called to "Unloading Information Overload" from the July 7 issue of the Wall Street Journal

Most telling to me is the following from Maggie Jackson:

"Relying on multitasking as a way of life, we chop up our opportunities and abilities to make big-picture sense of the world and pursue our long-term goals," she writes. "The way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention – the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress."

The issues with which we need to contend are such that we need  "...deep, sustained, perceptive attention..." in order to resolve these matters.