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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted

Forget everything youâ€™ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. 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 dayâ€”from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsonsâ€”has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. 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.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781594481949
Color Purple
ReleaseDate 2006-05-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594481949

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