04566cam a2200829 4500 1908615705 TxAuBib 20250208120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593653128 0593653122 B0DDNGLSJP Amazon 1e65a701-3d43-44af-8e3b-828698097ad5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11107627 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hayes, Chris. The Sirens' Call [Libby] : How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025. attention. politics. Computers. burnout. Business. investing. culture. money. work. society. strategy. internet. happiness. Neuroscience. philosophy. Economy. International Politics. Geopolitics. Evolution. Capitalism. psychology. Innovation. communication. Finance. media. History. focus. Pop Culture. government. Technology. political philosophy. Social Media. Sociology. Economics. political science. distraction. world politics. business books. history books. political books. economics books. sociology books. political science books. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Business. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society<br /> “An ambitious analysis of how the trivial amusements offered by online life have degraded not only our selves but also our politics.” —<i>New York Times</i><br /> “Brilliant book… Reading it has made me change the way I work and think.”—Rachel Maddow</b><br /> 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. <i>The Sirens’ Call</i> is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance.<br /> 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. As Hayes writes, “Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.” <i>The Sirens’ Call</i> is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-02-07 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1e65a701-3d43-44af-8e3b-828698097ad5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1e65a701-3d43-44af-8e3b-828698097ad5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)