The word "paradigms" is correct and usable in written English
It is generally used to refer to accepted methods of thinking about or approaching a problem, such as a philosophical or theoretical framework. For example, in business, there is a paradigm of "profit over people", in which decisions are often made at the expense of the people involved.
Yes there are real problems created by the new digital paradigms – as highlighted by One Little Indian's problems when Bjork's new album was leaked – but there are also opportunities.
Circumstances do not change, paradigms shift.
But rather than get any deeper into the economic argument, I want to talk about the political implications.The assumption of a trade-off between egalitarian distribution of resources and economic growth has been one of the dominant paradigms of American political thought since the cold war.
They are usually accompanied by lots of talk about "new paradigms".
For all the talk about new paradigms, it could be politics as usual pretty soon.
This allows filmmakers to have their own digital distribution channel with a far higher profit margin besids the higher-fee storefronts of Amazon, Apple and Walmart, among others.But what was remarkable throughout the event, even when the bosses of firms like Etsy and Kickstarter spoke, was the near utter lack of insincerity, marketing talk of "effectuating the paradigms" or hyperbole.
Yet, as Judge Jackson points out, "the fact that these new paradigms exist in embryonic form does not prevent Microsoft from enjoying monopoly power today," or, he maintains, for the foreseeable future.
He wrote in a recent article that mere futurists "falter because they belittle the power of religious paradigms, deeming them either too literal or too fantastic.
That implies a demand for wholly new sets of skills and educational backgrounds.Such changes are not unlike those that affected physics and chemistry during the 1940s, when new computational paradigms created the foundations for nuclear energy and the age of plastics.
"The homeless turned not just into walking, talking hotspots, but walking, talking billboards for a program that doesn't care anything at all about them or their future, so long as it can score a point or two about digital disruption of old media paradigms".It's a conscientious sentiment, but there's something uncomfortably pious about the backlash.
America's political class, meanwhile, is engaged in a constant competitive struggle to develop seductive new paradigms, preferably ones that can seize control of policy levers by offering politicians and voters stark choices between looming disasters and shiny silver bullets.
