This is a key insight lost on many who argue that the FBI's request can be honored without eliminating the value of Apple's security features on iOS.
It means when he gets to the section on torture, some genuinely shocking facts and insights are lost, weighed down by the overwhelming and unconvincing verbiage elsewhere.
Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology.
In Western Europe, after Theophrastus, botany passed through a bleak period of 1800 years when little progress was made and, indeed, many of the early insights were lost.
But as strategic ideas spread from the military, flashes of insight were lost in translation.
And that is the critical insight getting lost in the cross-fire between the theory's disciples and its critics.
Otherwise, the experience, the pithy quote, the beautiful sunset, the overheard conversation, the stray insight, is lost or seems somehow less substantial.
"Support trusses, fireproofing fragments and even burnt-out electrical switches that might have given scientists and engineers insight were lost forever -- even before an investigation was under way.
We take them for granted, oversimplify them or miss their key point and their insight is lost, replaced by foolish misunderstandings.
Without a platform to centralize marketing efforts by different sales associates, a lot of valuable data and insight is lost.
