It's no new big news that we're living in an era of distraction. States are trying to clamp down on cell phones in schools, social media has been called a health risk for kids and some are trying undergo various “digital detox” practices.
With “The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource” MSNBC host Chris Hayes isn't trying to join an already crowded shelf of books warning of the ills of being online 24/7. Instead he's exploring how we got to this point, and the result is a fascinating history of what he calls the attention age.
