The New York Times - SEPT. 26, 2014
I
SPENT the summer producing new “Candid Camera” shows, and among the
many things I observed after a 10-year hiatus was that people are more
easily fooled than ever.
That
may seem counterintuitive, but I’m certain it’s true. Much has to do
with multitasking. When my dad, Allen Funt, introduced the show over six
decades ago, he had to work at distracting people. Nowadays they do it
to themselves.
Many
people we now encounter are fiddling with cellphones and other devices,
tackling routine activities with less-than-full focus. That makes them
easier targets for our little experiments, but also more vulnerable to
personal mishaps and genuine scams.
I
worried briefly that people are now so tech-savvy that some of our
props and fake setups wouldn’t be believed. Instead, we found that the
omnipresence of technology has reached a point where people will now
accept almost anything.
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