The pop-science writer behind Everything Bad is Good for You and Wonderland will answer your questions in a live webchat on Monday 13 February – post them in the comments below 3.06pm GMT At best, video games, pop music and blockbuster movies are seen as the guilty pleasures of low culture – at worst denigrated as pointless trash. But they have a champion in popular science writer Steven Johnson. His 2005 book Everything Bad is Good for You argued how the complexity of TV drama plots and the interactivity of video games could enhance your brain; his new book Wonderland shows how the leisure industry has triggered technological innovation. In between, he’s written books on everything from cholera epidemics to the discovery of oxygen, co-created three startups, presented the BBC TV series How We Got to Now, and became a contributing editor at Wired. Continue reading...
Source: TheGuardian
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Steven Johnson webchat – post your questions now
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