Starved for success stories from the developing world, experts noticed.
In Bangladesh, family planning experts noticed a decade ago that in some of the remotest areas, information gleaned from satellite television was influencing contraceptive choices.
When United Nations experts noticed that crop production was flagging in seven countries around the world, from Brazil to Nepal, they contacted Gretchen LeBuhn, an associate professor at San Francisco State University who studies bees.
BEA Systems, a Silicon Valley firm founded in 1995, is the most ambitious, with its plan to do for web services and e-commerce "what Microsoft has done for the PC", as chief executive Bill Coleman grandly puts it.The age of web services actually began several years ago, but only experts noticed because it happened deep down in companies' IT plumbing.
During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate, which lights up your browser with "HTTPS" or flashes a padlock, had expired on many domains.
Likewise, Russell reported, after rock star Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994, "suicide experts noticed a spike in reports".
Under Goals, the experts noticed that my "t bars cross the t stem near the bottom, a sign that indicates you may set low goals for yourself," and that's just straight-up wrong.
The most curious feature of the European court of justice (ECJ), the court of the European Union, is not that it is a political court, but rather that it has until very recently been so successful in pursuing its political programme of the integration of Europe through law without attracting much public or even expert notice.
I'm a "supposed online-video expert" (notice the quotation marks) and any time I consider buying a set-top, over-the-top connected device, I don't quite know if I'm risking jail time for piracy or electrocution for short-circuiting my television… and that means that 99% of the population out there isn't considering OTT devices even though we all assume they are.
Robert Mankoff, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, finds Mr. Byrnes an "expert noticer" of small things that loom large but that we may miss.
