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

Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture

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

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 gro...