From Richard Watson’s new book, Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About It:

Our decision-making abilities are at risk because we are too busy to consider alternatives properly or because our brains trip us up by fast-tracking new information. We become unable to exclude what is irrelevant and retain an objective view on our experience, and we start to suffer from what Fredric Jameson, a U.S. cultural and political theorist, calls “culturally induced schizophrenia.”

The full article is here. (h/t Andrew Sullivan)