You probably spend a little too much time on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Buzzfeed, or you check your iPhone every few minutes. You might call even it an addiction.
This is the focus of Brian Hiss'
Experience People. The 20-city tour comes Denver Aug. 17-19 in a very un-techy 1970s Volkswagen van.
"Every American spends 40 minutes on Facebook a day," Hiss claims. "The closest thing I can relate it to is working from home and someone's ringing your doorbell all day. Would you be able to get anything done and be productive?"
Hiss is a co-founder of
Dooble, a social media site, which doesn't yet have information on Denver. But this tour is about disengaging from devices and experiencing people and places. "Every experience we're having now is through a device and not out there in the world where it used to be," Hiss contends. "We're not anti-technology -- it's just that technology is there to engage the experience, not be the experience."
The Denver schedule isn't finalized. Hiss says he's barely checking his phone while on the road -- but the tour, which is bing coordinated by Dooble Co-Founder Ryan Bearbower and includes Rob Loud, who's filming the tour for a documentary --already has a number of engagements. They include a live interview on KDVR's
Good Day Colorado on Mon. Aug 18, a presentation and discussion at
Denver Open Coffee Club and other events.
"What we really hope to get out of this is to really change the course of the entrepreneurial world, the business world and helping them to foster new best processes where we're not creating the habit-forming experiences and manipulating people," Hiss says.
Contact Confluence Denver Innovation & Jobs News Editor Chris Meehan with tips and leads for future stories at chris@confluence-denver.com.
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