Wrote this seven years ago. Hardly had any readers. One of my blogs that I think is the most meaningful. Please read and share or add your comments. John
According to Thomas Kuhn when a paradigm shifts, you cannot be successful doing what you did in the old paradigm. In a new paradigm, you must obey new rules to be successful. Our culture and world are going through one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history. It has been happening now for four generations starting with the Baby Boom generation. The transition or swing generations have been Generation X and Generation Y. These later two generations have been stuck between paradigms. The final or new generation has been somewhat appropriately called Generation Z. Generation Z *(See Footnote) represents the end of the paradigm shift.
The rules and cultural norms that have traditionally applied to: family, education, government, employment and law are all legacy based and present significant barriers to change. In computers, a legacy system refers to either hardware or software that is out of date but is difficult…
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