Paradigm means “The way things work” — the pattern, the model, the system, the set of rules, the modus operandi. In his 1992 book Future Edge, Joel Arthur Barker defines a paradigm shift as a decline in the current paradigm’s capacity to solve problems and create new things, and a concomitant rise in the ability of a new paradigm to do so [see A Major Paradigm Shift Well Underway for more on this.] The page references listed under this What’s Not Working section can be thought of as dying elements of the Current Paradigm — the paradigm that is becoming the Old Paradigm. [The page references listed under the What’s Working section can be thought of as elements of the Evolving Paradigm — the paradigm that is becoming the New Paradigm but whose elements aren’t yet clear enough to make it the Current Paradigm.]
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