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Everything Bad Is Good for You

Steven Johnson

Why we're reading this: How do you justify your video game collections? Why is a DVD of Othello charged for but the book is free?…more
[close] How do you justify your video game collections? Why is a DVD of Othello charged for but the book is free? How can we justify valuing one media type over another?

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Mar 15, 2012 Tom rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: collection-development, games, intelligence, television-shows, mass-media, pop-culture, sleeper-curve

Enjoyable essay on the sleeper curve. The lowest common denominator of entertainment is actually much more challenging for the viewer then it was 30 or 20 years ago. This means there is more expected of the consumer of entertainment, and to enjoy these more challenging forms we have to be smarter to keep up. The Kindle book was badly formatted but don't hold it against this book.
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