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

Forget everything you'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 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 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.

• We started tracking this book on March 9, 2011.
• This book was $12.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 181 times in the past 4,796 days.
• The current price of this book is $12.99 last checked 11 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past 90 days is $8.99.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $4.99.
• The lowest price to date was $4.99 last reached on November 14, 2023.
• This book has been $4.99 11 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $14.99 last reached on July 2, 2018.
• This book has been $14.99 2 times since we started tracking it.

• Politics & Social Sciences

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 274 Pages
• File Size: 989 KB