In every medium Mr. Conner wants the eye to be in constant movement and so misled by the next thing it sees that, when it returns to the first, it sees something altogether different.
Following, as the company announced the pricing of the Watch among other things, it saw its shares slip.
The machine learned to categorise common things it saw, including human faces and (to the amusement of the internet's denizens) the cats—sleeping, jumping or skateboarding that are ubiquitous online.
At its best, Ackroyd's narrative is careful and referential, matched by a lucid prose unsurprised by the things it sees.
The thing I see it being most useful for is with laptops.
Ebay knows a promising thing when it sees one.
This is an industry desperate to sell us "the next big thing" - and it sees our wrist, eyes and other parts of our anatomy - smart rings, anyone?
For one thing, it will be seen that state formation may itself be a product of the colonizing movement.
It sees things a little differently.
