their interaction didn't change i mean how do people change when they know that you're videotaping them yes sometimes it's freaked him out so some would you know literally dive under tables to avoid being videotaped but it also had an interesting effect because people act of a little better they you know people didn't want to gossip in front of me so it will be interesting when everyone has these little video cameras which i believe is coming and then i think we'll see maybe the world will be a better place you also describe conducted another experiment called the unit tasking experiment tell me about well this was because i'm a terrible multi-tasker so when i'm on the phone i'm also you know typing e-mails and watching t.v. and riding my bicycle and you know everything at once but the studies show that's terrible for you and that is actually not efficient it's the opposite of efficient

so the idea was let me try to do one thing at a time so if i am on the phone that's all i'm doing i actually blindfolded myself so i would concentrate on the phone call and that it was wild because it totally changed my life you know you realize that when you have conversations and you're multitasking there are terrible conversations when you really focus you actually listen to what the person is saying and you respond it's the it's a it's a bizarre concept as technology evolves there's many more distraction i know that are created so what what kind of effect and that have for our society i think it's it's bad i mean the scientists i talked to said it's not a small problem this is the eleventh plague multi-tasking it's making us dumber there are studies that show your i.q. actually goes down when you multi-task it's bad for driving you know we get into accidents it make. more depressed less able to empathize so it is

a real problem so this was my attempt to try to just do one thing at a time like when i met when i was eating just trying to put on eating which drove my wife crazy as well because she wanted to have a conversation i said let me just taste the food but it was a fascinating project very zen way of life actually yes i had a very good then then a moment to it let's go back to the life locking you downloaded all the video right that you recorded every minute of your day right right but all the tronic communication the u.s. we are told is recorded and stored for security purposes usually it's the federal government or the n.s.a. that has the over the recordings maybe it's what people are searching on the internet there's a lot of cameras out on the streets that are recording us when we don't know about it what are the risks of that do you believe considering you just did this

experiment on yourself you have all that videotape. someone else had all that video view is true and it's i think that's going to be a problem i actually think you know big brother is a little bit of a problem but i think a little brother is going to be more of a problem by that i mean other people will be videotaping you all the time so you do something embarrassing someone else is going to be videotaped and put on you too and they'll be humiliated you know you won't be able to slip on the banana peel you know anymore without it going on the you to on you tube government changes the way an entire society can behave i know it will be fascinating and i think we're already seeing it people are trying to. taking much fewer risks i mean will be interesting to see that this may people may get totally used to it and just realize you know it my flaws are going to be at. out

there what am i going to do which is i think what you see on reality television how about other people when they knew that you had a video camera on you be it friends family or strangers what was their reaction is that it was mixed i mean some people hated it so they would like you know cross to the other side of the street some people like that because they want you know maybe they they wanted to be actors or something so they did a little song and a little dance and they showed off for the camera what are the truths that you believe people don't like to know about themselves based on your experiment. it's a good question. i would say. i think people well when i showed my wife our argument she she saw herself losing control and she hated it was a it was a horrible experience so seeing yourself in your worst moment is a very humbling experience that it has its positives in unspent of it but you know

you you get i tried it with my kids as well i showed them when they were throwing a tantrum and i would show them video of that and say this is what you look like when you're throwing a tantrum and they didn't want to see it they covered up their ears and walked away what were your biggest disappointments when it came to that experiment. one was how hard it was to find footage because i thought this will be the end of the losing things so if i lose my wallet i'll just be gable to go back and look at the videotape and say oh i left it on the counter but the problem is i would look and it would take me like six hours to find my wallet on the video machine the videotape and my wife would find it in ten minutes by just look in the regular old way right see we're becoming a little too reliant on that the way that they are not using i don't want to see if common sense but just not using your own mind or your own memory or any you're

immediately go with your i think you put it very well the i was becoming too reliant on the video i was outsourcing my memory to make you filter yourself in anyway just the way that you interact with people did you end up filtering i did i did it you know i felt that this is on tape so i'm not going to gossip about my friend so it was actually i did another experiment where i live by the rules of the bible so it's almost like i was going back into the bible because i wasn't allowed to gossip tell me about the some of the equipment that you used when you were documented yourself i used a small camera that attached to my ear it's called a look see and it would hold it could hold ten hours of video so it was remarkable there's another one that people use that's called the go pro and that's a camera that you can sort of strap to your chest or strap to your head so i did that you looked a little weird when you were walking around with that it requires

a great deal of discipline what you do with the live blogging experiment the unit task experiment you've done many other experiments where you get that discipline from i think it's partly because i'm obsessive compulsive i have obsessive compulsive disorder so this is the way i channel that into something productive instead of washing my hands forty times a day i mean. to channel it into one of my projects now is your wife a saint because you know living with this and having the tolerance of all that for all these different experiments can't be easy i would say my wife is a saint she puts up with quite a bit. and you know some are harder than others when i live by the rules of the bible i had to have this huge beard and she hated that she wouldn't kiss me for floor five months so. but other times other times you know she actually likes it like during the bible when i became a little more compassionate and i would try to think about my neighbor

a little more she like that so it's a mixed bag for him but overall yes he's a saint is this immersion journalism yeah it's called all sorts of things it's called immersion journalism or method journalism experience filled journalism stunt journalism i've heard all sorts of names. do you think that's the best way to write about the topic clearly right is live it i think in some cases yes that's the best way to learn not everything like you know if you're going to write about politics it's hard to become the president of the united states and write about it from a first person point of view but there are many topics even something like fame at one point i look very little much like an actor who is having his fifteen minutes so i went to the academy awards dressed as that actor and it was amazing because i got to feel what it's like to be famous and i was signing autographs and people were telling me how brilliant i was so it was

a unique point of view i would never have been able to learn what it's like unless i did it myself and what kind of suggestions you get for future experiments or have you got for all i get tons of suggestions and some of them are good actually some of them not so good one common one people say that maybe i should try to become the world's greatest lover. and they will like all the positions in the comma sutra and my wife is like no way that's happening that sounds exhausting i'm not going to do that sometimes though they make suggestions that i actually do there's one where they suggested i put my wife through all of this so i should do a month where i do everything she said just be a doormat of a husband so i did that that was horrible that was one of the worst months of my life because she became drunk with power what's your next experiment. my next experiment i'm actually still deciding on my next experiment the life logging was

the most recent and i am still following a lot of what i did from the health experiment that i did where i tried to be the healthiest person alive so i spend a lot of my time now on a treadmill that's how i work as i put my computer on top of a treadmill and i type so. i've adopted bits and pieces from all of my experiments and then takes up a lot of time if you take up thank you very much for sitting down there to thank you marina. please click.

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reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sea it's a step forward a little corrects it is toxic as it looked like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this bill's.

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