llow me a bit of nostalgia, if you will. When I think of developing a wonder mindset, I imagine one of those Magic Eye posters from the 1990s. For those among the uninitiated, these wildly popular posters were pieces of digitally generated ‘art’ (a term used very loosely here), something of an optical illusion, but one that relied on a perceptual shift. A very complex and colourful variety of what’s called a random-dot autostereogram, the images on these posters looked like a staticky pattern of fractals or coloured shapes. But you weren’t trying to see that patterned image – you were trying to see another image hidden within the piece, something cheesy, such as a breaching dolphin or roaring lion. To view this magic image, one would stare at the poster (some folks longer than others), slack-jawed, head tilted, maybe squinting, until –
