Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594481946 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Everything Good builds a case to the contrary that is engaging, thorough, and ultimately convincing. The heart of Johnson's argument is something called the Sleeper Curve--a universe of popular entertainment that trends, intellectually speaking, ever upward, so that today's pop-culture consumer has to do more "cognitive work"--making snap decisions and coming up with long-term strategies in role-playing video games, for example, or mastering new virtual environments on the Internet-- than ever before. In his fourth book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, iconoclastic science writer Steven Johnson (who used hims
"Five Stars" according to laila. A good debate about the influence of media in our life and behaviors.. "Quick read; good for outside point of view" according to M. Reed. This book was an interesting read. The author didn't go into extreme mode about quantifying everything; he simply brought up global points about how trends might be helping overall. His point: the lowest common denominator has, over time, raised to a higher level, and redeeming qualities are being built in to those lower levels. The overall effect is that people seem to have more interest in those things, and the higher-level th. "great!!" according to Amazon Customer. great!!
Steven Johnson's newest book, How We Got to Now, is now available from Riverhead Books.. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again.With a new afterword by the author. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brai