"The Structure of Engineering Revolutions" by @johnallsopp https://webdirections.org/blog/the-structure-of-engineering-revolutions/
I feel like I've been waiting half a year for someone to write this essay. This makes more sense out of everything I've been reading, thinking, and feeling for the past few months than just about anything else I've read.
@nolan @johnallsopp There is a long history of using Kuhn to argue that something new is equally revolutionary.
Consider the old saying "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win." Sagan commented "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Few things cross the chasm or follow the Gartner hype cycle.The wonder material asbestos needs remediation. Our plastic piles up.
@alesroubicek @nolan @johnallsopp Global thermonuclear war accelerates entropy. Anthropogenic global warming accelerates entropy. Sustainable living accelerates entropy. No matter how Panglossian things are, in the end we're all dead, so everything is fine, and there's no need to change anything or care.
I care.
Nolan Lawson
Andrew Dalke
Aleš Roubíček