Jeremy Bailenson response to Eliza Eddison

Hey, on the topic of multi-tasking. I am sure we all have anecdotes similar just like the one I describe below, but given that it happened two days ago it is fresh on my mind.

I was giving at talk at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society on Monday on the benefits and costs of virtual life; the audience was mostly students and professors for Harvard and MIT. At the end of the talk, during Q&A session, a student was excited and was rushing into the room while talking on his (digital) cell phone. He hit his head on the (physical) door frame went to the floor, bleeding profusely from a head wound. HE IS FINE NOW, but just to be safe the EMTs took him out on a stretcher.

On the other hand, of course there are many instances where cell phones have saved the lives of users and those around them.