Technologically-drive information overload and distractions are causing fragmented attention and cultural decline, according to the author of What's Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life, and Refuge in the Information Age (2002) and the "Balancing Acts" column in the Boston Globe. Jackson reviews relevant research that offers possible solutions. The book includes a foreword by Bill McKibben (The End of Nature), but it does not cite Nicholas Carr's similar argument in Is Google Making Us Stupid? Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)