The sirens' call: how attention became the world's most endangered resource
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New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
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Book
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320 pages ; 24 cm
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20 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.” Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens’ Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention"--
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Unknown
ISBN:
9780593653111, 0593653114
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-305) and index.
Description
"We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.” Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens’ Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Hayes, C. (2025). The sirens' call: how attention became the world's most endangered resource. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hayes, Christopher, 1979-. 2025. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hayes, Christopher, 1979-, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. Penguin Press, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hayes, Christopher. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. Penguin Press, 2025.
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