The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes, 336 pages.
Hayes makes the argument that we live not in the Information Age, as many people claim, but rather in the Attention Age; as information is theoretically infinite, but attention is an increasingly scarce (and therefore valuable) resource. In the last couple of decades there has been a breakneck shift in the amount of attention extracted from pretty much everyone, a trend that is having a profound effect on human psyches, in a trajectory that is not remotely sustainable.
Chris Hayes crafts a well-constructed argument, and he lays it out in a way that is easy to follow an entertaining. He pulls in quite a lot of sources, and does a good job examining problems from all angles. I listened to the audiobook, which was read by the author and was very well done. This felt a little surface level, but it is a bold claim well-supported, and it gave me a lot to think about.
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