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Watch a lot of cnn, and i think the average person thats watching tv, no matter what channel theyre watching they cant tell you the difference between iran and iran. was it hacked, was there surveillance, i think people are confused to what the real truth is because theyve had so much information overload and were all waiting to see when the other shoe is going to drop. >> who is responsible for that confusion? do you think that maybe youre responsible for that confusion, for trying to make sens...

Time to examine it and its stored and available to them. they do it without suspicion or probable cause. isnt it un-american for our own government to gather all this information about us? now we find out that the government can get into the kitchen or the bedroom through something that when george arwall wrote it it sounded so fantastic to believe it. that watching a television that can be watching you. what upsets me, theres no out rage. its oh, my god. theres no outrage. we have accepted the ...

Information overload and all of that. and, you know, thats just where we are. i dont know if there is anything to do about it. but you have a suggestion or a remedy, i guess. and a part called anchoring which, of course, we relate to since that is our career. what can you do if you feel disoriented and dizzy? >> well, you know, what i really argue is that the proper governing unit for the 21st century is what i call the healthy community. the single family is too weak. the federal government is ...

Is it our fault? why are they so stressed out? how much of it is us? >> i do think theres a flood of information that is available, and for people who are interested, they are getting lost in it. and i think some of the social media obviously can start on one area and all of a sudden you find a lot of times, its very inflammatory. theres a lot of anger. theres a lot of strong feelings, and i think that gets internalized. and it can add to feeling more stressed by the time youre finished, rather ...

We now know thats not true. its a crazy overestimate. the conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. >> information overload also leads to something weve all experienced, decision fatigue. its why in nearly every picture, albert einstein is wearing a gray suit, why steve jobs always wore a black turtle neck and mark zuckerberg is almost always sporting his gray t-shirt. they didnt want to waste valuable energy making inconsequentialedne decisions a their clothes. >> if youre making...

Take me to finish this introduction youll have consumed 35 meg bites of data equivalent to a book of 17,000 pages. if youre surfing the web you could add 20% of that. researchers at the university of california calculated we consume about 74 gigabytes. about 9 dvds worth of data every day. its amazing were able to process this and make sense of it. how do you think straight in the age of information overload? >> information overload refers to the notion that were trying to take in more than the ...

Later. we still dont know the exact time of odins murder specifically. so i dont know how aaron would have had that information two years ago. >> mel, as a lawyer as someone who follows these trials closely, what does it tell you that they latched on as a group to something so nuanced? a little bit of a timeline from one of 130-plus witnesses for the prosecution? >> reporter: well it tells us a couple things. first of all, one of the reasons why they took 35 hours is as they said it was informat...

>> what is the takeaway here beyond the fact that some people may find this completely unfair and suspicious that this person was put before the grand jury, what is the legal takeaway for you? >> the legal takeaway is that it just gives us the sense that the entire process was fraught with this kind of irrelevant, inconsistent information all uploaded into the minds of the jury, the jury panel, which did not need to hear all this information overload. you know, what this also tells me is that th...

>> good evening, sir. >> what is the takeaway here beyond the fact that some people may find this completely unfair and suspicious that this person was put before the grand jury, what is the legal takeaway for you? >> the legal takeaway is that it just gives us the sense that the entire process was fraught with this kind of irrelevant, inconsistent information all uploaded into the minds of the jury, the jury panel, which did not need to hear all this information overload. you know, what this al...

We have our smartphones so we can shop when were on the go. a lot of people saw the deals start last monday that were rolled out and heres the deal thats going to come on friday and monday. i think it was a bit of information overload that led to lethargy. >> its like ten minutes old. >> this is how technology moves. it moves that quick that something 5 years old is now nostalgic. >> if i want to save money on, what should i save money on? >> you should definitely save money on tvs. and i found ...