How professional gear and clinical jargon distorts our perceptions
For most of human history, there was a clear line of demarcation between the professional and the amateurish, everyday activities. The surgeon's tools stayed in the operating room, the racing car remained on the track, and the philosopher's language was confined to lecture halls. We started to notice that those boundaries began to dissolve. Professional gear trickled into gyms and living rooms, racing technology crept into the family sedan, and clinical language escaped universities to sneak its way into dinner table conversations.
