The Sirens' Call: Attention Resource by Christopher L. Hayes |Book Club
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Full Title: The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Suggested by: Jennifer S.
Pages to read: 230
ISBN: 9780593653111 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780593653128 (Edition Eugene is using)
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Forthcoming Similar Events:
1 - Attention - 10/18/2025 = Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
2 - Resources - 10/25/2025 = The Big Picture: Origins of Life, Meaning, Universe by Sean Carroll
3 - Misuse of Attention - 11/29/2025 = Weapons of Math Destruction: Big Data by Cathy O'Neill
4 - Philosophy - 12/06/2025 = An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is attention?
•What is attentional blindness?
•How is attention a resource?
•How does attention get used?
•What is voluntary attention?
•What in involuntary attention?
•hat is social attention?
•How does new technology get treated?
•What has technology done to attention?
•What is a brand?
•What is a news cycle?
•What happened to Odysseus?
•Would a person do an unpleasant activity or no activity at all?
•What is the problem with boredom?
•How did boredom come to be?
•What is the king’s paradox?
•How is attention addicting?
•What is an infinite entertainment device?
•What is the worth of advertisement?
•How does competition affect the quality of information?
•How has the amount of information affected peoples lives?
•What makes an information processing system useful?
•How did Google change its search engine?
•What kind of conversation is needed for a functioning democracy?
Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.