Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Things move much faster now, for example. "When our visual systems evolved, and when our capacities for attention evolved, we didn't move at 60 mph. down highways," so developing brains didn't need to be able to notice a lot of unexpected things approaching at high speeds.

Likewise, Chabris says, "our faculties for making decisions were able to rely on anecdotes and stories, when that was the only information that was available to us." Now that we have statistical studies and databases and all kinds of other information, we aren't as good at making sense of and using information as a guide in our decisions.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =126977945

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. — R.D.Laing