Coming *into* cyberspace we're bombarded with data. In the physical world we're used to handling this with our senses, peripheral vision. So we demand to not just *read* the data about the stockmarket or our social network, but to convert it into a format where it can be *gleaned*, *experienced*.

This is what Mark Rantzer has called supersenses: new communication senses to understand the huge mass of information that confronts us.

The idea is that by compressing complex data and presenting it in a way that minimises cognitive overhead, we can have a kind of background awareness of otherwise difficult to understand qualities.