The fantasy of a bank robbery influenced what customers expected in terms of security measures, leading banks to implement performative security features not necessarily effective in preventing modern financial crimes conducted through computers.
What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense because the average American spends 2 hours and 51 minutes watching movies and TV each day. That’s a whopping 19 percent of our waking hours. Walt Hickey is a data journalist and author of a new book called You Are What You Watch. In it, Walt makes a case for how much film and television shapes us as individuals and as a society, far beyond what we give it credit for.
You Are What You Watch
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