What Smilingcat said. Practice picking your eyes up. I have a friend whose mantra on the motorcycle is "look up 10°." Honestly if you're looking at your front wheel, you should be looking up more like 45°. But you get the picture. Looking at the ground is a sure way to wind up on it. (Just as target fixating on any obstacle - tree, car, lamp post, etc. - is a sure way to wind up hitting it.)
I'm told that mountain biking is a great way to improve your descending skills and learn to "look where you want to go" (not just descending, but all the time).
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler