Gadgetory

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been under self-imposed house arrest for 1718 days so I wanted to explore what it feels like to be voluntarily so cut off from the world and yet still so connected but I'm not going to the Ecuadorian Embassy and I'm not even in London I'm here on the rainy streets of Liverpool where an art exhibition invites you inside Julian Assange's office and maybe inside his head and so this is Julia sons office first impression I guess is how one day is imagine spending whole life in here [Laughter] now obviously this is only a recreation it's an artist's impression of Julian Assange but if we look at little details we can try to imagine how to resize my Steve himself so if we look at the bookcase over here we see authors like Subway Susak I've been Welsh Quentin Tarantino iconoclast some bad boys or we also have Neil Stevenson zodiac which is a book about a lone hero fighting against corporations and Pharisees and we also have a genuine war and Rubicon zone on the wall here we've got a child's drawing of a man making a daring zipline escape away from this building over the heads of some of these very angry looking placement presume is freedom so I've been here a little while now and one thing's restock me is I can see out of that window there's people bustling around I can hear music there's people coming at now and I wonder if this is way it's like the Julian Assange to be confined in this space but also it's been constantly painfully reminded that the world is still out there still spinning on without him and it's it's restraint and troubling to think that someone who's subjecting themselves to this weird solitary confinement can still reach out with technology and influence elections and shape a world yoga really sees through that window and through these screenings we not only been here a couple of hours already I can feel my worlds really shrinking so I'm going to do one thing that's doing a Sun chanting within these four walls of a mechanical