Pop Culture

Steve Johnson gave a great explanation on what exactly pop culture is and how important it is to learn about it today. In his book, Everything bad is good for you he explains and talks about how pop culture impacts people today and how it technology has effected our world. In the video we watched in class, he tells a story about how he was playing SimCity with his nephew. Immediately his nephew caught on to the game and started telling Steve what he could do to make his "SimCity" better for the people. I think this shows that kids and young adults catch on to things faster if they are interacting rather then sitting in a class room reading a book about it. When Steve was talking about this during his video, it made me think that if kids who are 6-10 years old can learn about Industrial Tax by just watching the SimCity game, how are kids going to be in 20 years? I think the internet and all of technology is going to impact us so much that when we look back in 20 years, we are going to think that we are almost unintelligent today.

NBC nightly

During class this week, we watched NBC nightly news with Brian Williams. There was a lot of news that wasnt all that important and it took up a lot of time during the segment we watched. I think the most important news that was covered was about Susan Rice, the UN Ambassador. Also the weather that effected the west coast was more important too. There was a lot of news that didnt really mean a lot, it was pretty irrelevant. They talked about the Christmas tree, the committee chair men, and about Obama and Romney having a lunch date. Honestly i thought that was sort of funny and totally should not have made the news. I felt like there could have been a different news story they could have covered that would have been way more important then the president and Romney having lunch and trying to decide what to eat.