Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter Audiobook (Free)

From the writer of the New York Times bestseller Mind WIDELY OPEN comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it’s never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. With this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly explored, and surprisingly convincing reserve, Steven Johnson pulls from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue the pop lifestyle we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each transferring year, and, far from rotting our brains, is in fact posing new cognitive issues that are in fact making our minds measurably sharper. You won’t ever regard the shine of the gaming or television screen the same way again.