Humans are sometimes physically incapable of processing what the eye is witnessing into an image that our brains can translate into something that we can recognise – in a sense, we have a virtual blind spot.
There’s a classic example that had a devastating impact within the Swiss watch-making business. It led to 50,000 employees losing their jobs, and the company’s market share falling from 65% to below 10%.
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