A review by bobkat
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson

4.0

This book is so much fun! And Steven Johnson is (mostly) convincing me that video games involve important decision-making skills and delayed rather than instant gratification, the internet involves important social skills and encourages personal expression, TV more and more involves emotional intelligence as well as mental organizational and detective work, etc. Not a lot of hard sciences here -- this is like an even fluffier Malcolm Gladwell book, but as an opinion piece it's nicely organized and well-written (save a couple weirdly incomplete sentences). I'm really enjoying it!