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[Title] Everything Bad is Good for You [Author] Steven Johnson [Rating] ★★★ [Year] 2006 [Read] 2011/11/03 [Review] 
I thought it was very short and not in depth at all; yeah, his handful of graphs of episodes was interesting from the data visualization viewpoint, but most of his arguments, such as they were, were qualitative and hand-wavey. (What, there are no simplistic shows these days?) The best I can say is: the thesis is not obviously impossible or wrong a priori, but needs a heck of a lot more empirical backing.
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