Paradigm Rift
The Gap Between the Way Things Are and the Way We Think They Are
Thomas Kuhn first coined the terms paradigm and paradigm shift in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books in the history and philosophy of science. Paradigms are shared worldviews that structure the way science is done. They are broad in scope, impacting many aspects of a given scientific discipline or many disciplines. They function for a very long time (i.e. generations) and never change overnight or even in a year. Despite their modern usage, in their original conception they were solely applicable to the natural sciences. There are no paradigms or paradigm shifts in business, nor in technology, or in anything else. Paradigm shifts happen when over time a “sufficient number of anomalies are identified, which lead to the replacement of one paradigm by another."
The new paradigm is not available for debate by scientific methods any longer. It is accepted as given and science is now only concerned with filling in the details. A classic example was the transition from the geocentric (earth-centered) view of the 'universe' to the heliocentric (sun-centered) view.
Many people suggest that artificial intelligence and machine learning are examples of paradigm shifts. In actuality they are not, and cannot be, because they are not science but technology. Technology is based on scientific principles, but it is not science. This disconnect between the way things are and the way we think they are is a classic example of a paradigm rift.
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