Hace tiempo estaba indeciso, ahora ya no estoy tan seguro

Este es el segundo libro de Steven Johnson que pasa por mis manos (el primero fue Mind Wide Open) ya la cosa promete. ¡Por fin!, si los argumentos me convencen, ya voy a tener excusa para demostrar que tirarme 30 horas seguidas delante de la tele viendo series de televisión es culturizarme…

De la contraportada

‘We need never feel guilty about that 96-hour Grand Theft Auto session again’ – Arena

Tune in, turn on and get smarter…

The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto: we’re constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertaiment. But, as Steve Johnson shows, it’s actually making us more intelligent.

Everthing Bad is Good your You, one of the most talked about books of the year, puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. He shows that mass culture is actually more sophisticated and challenging than ever before. When we focus on what our minds have to do to process its complex, multilayered messages, it becomes clear that it’s not dumbing us down – but smartening us up.

‘A vital, lucid exploration of the contemporary mediascape’ – Time Out

‘Thought-provoking… very persuasive’ – Sunday Times

‘A guru for Generation Xbox’ – Financial Times

‘A blod little book… probes so interestingly into the components of modern culture’ – Zoe Williams.

‘A must-read’ – Mark Thompson, head of the BBC.

‘Incisive’ – Heat

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Este libro lo compre a mi hermana como regalo, lo vi en su lista de los deseos y me dije, jo, esto me interesa leerlo a mí, así que se lo compro de regalo y después lo gorroneo. El problema fue que ella lo puso en su lista para tenerlo apuntado en algún lugar y así regalármelo a mí dado que creía que me podría gustar… al final el libro es de ella, y lo gorroneo yo… cosas que pasan.

De la contraportada

‘As Michio Kaku reveals, what for 250 years was science-fiction fantasy is now the likeliest picture of reality… the journey he takes the reader on is so picturesque and the conclusions so statling that your are gripped’ – Sunday Telegraph

The world is coming to an end. But humankind’s story is only just beginning…

Imagine a future where we are not alone. Where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds – some strangely familiar, some almost unimaginalbe. And that, when planet earth finally runs down to a cold, dark wasteland, we will be able to excape into these worlds and start again. Kaku’s thirlling guide to the galaxy shows us how it could happen sooner than we think and the future for intelligent life is one of endless possibilities.

‘Kaku brings his formidable explanatory talents to bear on one of the strangest and most exciting possibilities to have emerged from modern physics… wonderful’ – Brian Greene

‘One of the gurus of modern physics’ – Financial Times

‘Nobody who reads this book can be anything less than amazed’ – Scotland on Sunday

‘An exhilarating romp through the frontiers of cosmology’ – Martin Rees

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