From the video and the reading Johnson says that popular culture is making us smarter. He says there's a lot of cognitive engagement in today's popular culture that we thoroughly get a cognitive workout. He uses the example of 7 year old watching him play Sims City and then knowing and fully understanding what industrial taxes are just by watching, because he was learning without realizing. He never would've learned about that in school because it would have just been boring and wouldn't have kept his attention. In a lot of games there are many quests that you have to fulfill but there aren't any clear cut specific rules on how to complete these. So you have to figure it out for yourself by poking around and trial and error. The complexity, time, effort, and commitment/mind commitment that a person puts into popular culture these days has increased.
His purpose is to show how the internet is more interactive and that it impacts the way people experience television. To strengthen his argument he shows how interactive is doing something between two things, two-sided and you have to think on your feet. He also says that since the internet has become more complicated, TV has as well. But we want complicated shows and in order to understand people will really engage with TV shows and they go to the internet to catch up/understand. His argument is less strong when he talks about "probing" because at first I didn't really understand it until we talked about it in class. Also when in the video he talked about camp 1 thought and camp 2 thought, because he didn't really go into much detail about it and it was kind of confusing.
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