“Many video games, television shows, and other forms of popular entertainment may reek of sex and violence, but what about their benefits in developing American brains?

The brain-developing benefits of pop culture?

That the very question seems preposterous is the backdrop of Steven Johnson’s iconoclastic and captivating Everything Bad Is Good for You. In fact, he says, it’s the public’s overly righteous preoccupation with sexual and violent content that is diverting attention from pop culture’s important contribution to Americans’ cognitive development.” (Boston Globe)