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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
To know where we’re going, we want to start with understanding where we’ve been. When we can see where we are and where we’ve come from, then we just connect those dots and make our best guess about the future by drawing a line projecting forward, right?
Not so much. Thomas Kuhn argues in his book The Nature of Scientific Revolutions, which coined the term ‘paradigm-shift’, that advancement isn’t a gradual progression of accumulation, but rather is more like water building up behind a dam, first cracks begin to emerge, then small leaks, but then suddenly a total breakthrough. Once the dam is broken, things aren’t like they were before. No one knows where the next dam is, when it will break or what the world will look like post-break. For further reading you