A fish eye lens doesn’t ask us to choose between focus and context—it lets us experience both simultaneously. It’s good inspiration for how to offer detailed answers while revealing the surrounding connections and structures.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

But when you ask an LLM chatbot, you don’t get any of that. It’s as if you opened a book to one random sentence, read it, and closed the book again. Sure, the answer might be accurate, even helpful—but it’s stripped of all the surrounding context that makes learning feel meaningful and complete.