Yes I agree

Response to Johnson
In Steven Johnsons book Everything Bad Is Good For You. argues that we are in fact in some way getting smarter by watching television. He tells us that the popular media steadily, but almost imperceptibly, making our minds sharper. Which Johnson calls the Sleeper Curve.

To me I really agree with what Johnson is saying about how the Sleeper Curve is in fact making us smarter. He gives us great details in his book that made me agree with him. Like when he tells us that people’s IQ’s are going up. Also that the test makers keep making the average score to be one-hundred. There is also the part in his book when he talks about the multi-threading. To me this is a big reason on why we are in a since getting smart. This is because with these multi-threading, which are extra storylines in an episode, people are having to think a whole lot more. This is because in the first ten minutes you may be watching one thing and then it turns over to another. This keeps happening through the whole show. So like Johnson says “people did not like it.” You see we now have to think more when we watch these shows. Which every show has now, unlike back when people like one threaded shows, Like Starsky and Hutch. The other thing that really made me believe him was the social networking. That is something you really have to think about. Which in Johnsons words are that” social networking is the connection of all characters in the show. With some of these new shows you are getting like ten main characters in a show. So that really makes you think about who is connected to who and how.

So that is why I believe that Johnson is right in saying that television has in a way made smarter. From the facts about the multi-threading to the social networking and how peoples IQ’s have grow over the years.