No one was more excited when you had a breakthrough story, a bold notion that just might work.
He cautions this "disruptive" innovation is not the same thing as "radical" or "breakthrough" innovation, although the notions are often conflated.
Taylor's breakthroughs in changing the notion of swing, improvising without chords, and spontaneous composition – combining the timbres and intonations of jazz with the vocabulary of contemporary conservatoire music – opened up new avenues for both improvisers and composers.
"Is this a breakthrough in terms of the notion that this is a new class of drug with a new mechanism of action?" he asked rhetorically.
But Mills' breakthrough ideas -- especially his notion of the "power elite" -- resonate today with the growing recognition that too much wealth and power in the hands of the superrich undermines democracy.
It's his voice that people recognize, the 40-year-old actor said, a modest notion considering his breakthrough role as the sensitive barber Richie on "Looking" made Castillo a veritable heartthrob, despite the HBO show's modest ratings.
The strong form of the present hypothesis, i.e., the notion that the breakthrough stage in the history of life was a primitive coupled replication-translation system (Fig. 2), is falsifiable.
This seems to me correct, even if it may contradict the notion that no great breakthrough took place.
IT can take years, sometimes decades, for the commercial applications of a scientific or intellectual breakthrough to become apparent — like the notion that brainless bacteria communicate through networks to cause diseases that can also wreak social or economic havoc.
Ross then offered a list of new predictions, including the notion that that technology-based breakthroughs in finance and education would create "many new billionaires in the developing world," and that cyber-warfare would become more commonplace.
