“This is one of the most brilliant books I've read in a while. Here, let me repeat that for truth:

This book. Brilliant. Totally.

But let's back up a second and I'll explain why. In Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson describes a phenomenon he calls "the sleeper curve." Basically, it holds that the vessels of pop culture --mass media like TV shows, video games, and the Internet in particular-- have grown steadily more complex and cognitively demanding over the last...”

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