Malcolm Gladwell explains thin-slicing as our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience.
He illustrates how, after analyzing a normal conversation between a husband and wife for an hour, John Gottman can predict whether that couple will be married in 15 years with 95% accuracy. If he analyzes them for 2 hours, his accuracy diminishes to 90%.
We skim the page everyday and thin-slice it. In fact, many of us do it with, hundreds of pages everyday.
No we don't want some machine to summarize the page for us. It would have stripped of the soul of the material. But, we want perceived affordances,that will help us thin slice a page.
Affordance, a word coined by perceptual psychologist J.J.Gibson refers to the actionable properties between the world and an actor. "Perceived affordances", according to Donald Norman, refer to the world that is perceived by the user, rather than what is true.
With such tools, we would "cope up" with the information overload efficiently, just like, how our eye copes up with the sensory overload every day.
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