Hoareau argues that another structural shift is coming — akin to the shift from web 1.0 to web 2.0 — a shift that responds to the fact web users are now content producers yet aren't in control of the very same content they produce.
Clearly, this goes beyond mere change to something more profound, akin to a shift in the dominant culture or philosophy.
To hear the history books tell it, that album's arrival was akin to tectonic plates shifting, the earth moving beneath a culture's feet.
Something akin to the Shift but far more portable and with day-long battery life would be a welcome addition to the market.
The business world is beginning to experience something akin to the shift the medical community has gone through in recent decades: Cause is much like traditional Western Medicine: Focused on the symptom of the problem and how to alleviate this.
This is a shift akin to the Reagan-led shift in 1980, when government was cast as the problem, not the solution, and the agenda was dominated for a decade by tax-cutting (or, more accurately, by downward tax-shifting).
More broadly, Mr. Rudenstine said he believed that the information technology revolution and globalization of the economy heralded a tectonic shift in academia, akin to the switch from small colleges to large research universities at the turn of the century and the vastly expanded access to higher education after World War II.
What the city needs is people willing to start small, to create an grassroots following, to develop - through location, booking, and overall ethos - something akin to a cultural shift. .
Critical thinking is not a mechanistic change, instead requiring a level of cognition developed over time, akin to a cultural shift.
Next's statement is the latest sign that fashion retailers are struggling to shift winter clothing with September temperatures more akin to those of summer.
