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Recently a number of studies have shown that under certain circumstances, very large changes can be made in a picture without observers noticing them.
In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea.
2010-04-17
airplane philosophy poetry flight aviation travel journey pilgrim change speed jet lag noise pollution sky Alain de Botton distanceThis failure to notice what should be very apparent is something we unconsciously experience every day as our brains filter the barrage of visual information which we are flooded with. And apparently it has a name; it is called change blindness.
2010-06-11
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