“The paradigms of any complex, transformative era are its most interesting features. Paradigms born today will transform the global environment tomorrow.(…)”
“The key transformative issues in a society don’t always attract immediate notice. Transformative issues involve paradigm shifts. When paradigms are shifting, the previous dominant information hierarchy holds the obvious focus of a society’s attention until the shift is complete.”
ᔥKen Friedman in Forty Years of Flux
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”Essentially, Kuhn argued that throughout scientific history, true changes in our understanding of the world were only derived when scientists made observations that ran contrary to popular understanding. (…)
(…)As Kuhn made his argument, what emerges is a complex explanation for why these sorts of contrarian observations allow us to change our most fundamental assumptions. Once our assumptions had been changed, as Kuhn saw it, a better understanding of the world could emerge. Even more, as Kuhn positioned the argument, once our assumptions had been changed a more complete understanding of the world was bound to emerge.”
ᔥThe disruptive MBA in Thomas Kuhn & Meaningful Innovation
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“Just before an airplane breaks the sound barrier, sound waves become visible on the wings of the plane. The sudden visibility of sound just as sound ends is an apt instance of that great pattern of being that reveals new and opposite forms just as the earlier forms reach their peak performance.“
Marshall McLuhan in “Understanding Media - The Extensions of Man”