Dear All,
I think Steve is on to an important point concerning innovation within any field.
Language precedes change as it reflects changed thinking.
As a field, we may be at a Kuhnian paradigm shift or simply punctuated equilibrium point as suggested by Stephen J. Gould.
In sum, change is happening and we can scoff at it or embrace or we can shape it. I think that people resisting change are not always or automatically wrong (Steve is not saying this) because the resisters (crude term) may be trying to shape it according to understood and agreed principles.
The interactive process keeps the field alive and it will drive us in new and interesting directions.
The problem for any field is that we work to get noticed, develop our specialism, and when it (the field matures) the specialism is undermined by new innovations. Typewriters have not disappeared but changed into word processors because we still need to process words whether we do it with a pencil or with an electronic pen on a PDA.
We need to have these discussions and contest these terms both push and resist or we as a field will stagnate.
Best,
Lawrence
P.S. I have deleted the thread to save space and sanity.
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