Another Consequence of the Paradigm Shift
Two great Scott Adams quotes occur to me this morning. Mr. Adams writes the cartoon strip Dilbert, and his thoughts are often poignant, sometimes painfully so. First, from December 11, 1999, the “boss” says “I think the internet might catch on. I rushed over here so I could be the first to say it’s a new paradigm.” Earlier, in 1995, Mr. Adams coined the phrase “a paradigm shifting without a clutch.” Well, if none of you have beat me to it, let me rush out here to be the first to say that electronic service at the OJCC is a "new paradigm." That said, I am sure that this whole internet thing, which seems like the be all and end all, is really just another stepping stone. We will look back on the internet one day and reminisce about it the way we reminisce today about black and white televisions. That is not because it is not a great tool, it is because the next thing will make it obsolete. Do you think our ancestors ever thought anything would be invented that was ...