Article on the power of noticing and its enhancement through technology.
(from Russell Davies):
But as London-based designer Matt Jones points out... "Our personal technologies (particularly smart phones) light up our surroundings in different ways," he says. They let us refocus the world around us. He calls this "bionic noticing". An example might be the way carrying around a camera phone, and feeling a regular need to upload interesting stuff to a service like Flickr, makes you pay more attention to your surroundings. Five minutes in a queue becomes an opportunity to notice the inconspicuous intriguing textures and greebles of your environment, and, bagging and tagging them, to share those moments of noticing with your friends and win some mild, informal kudos.
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