Word: paradigmes
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...wooden boxes of the 1920s to the hulking contraptions of today, Japan's basic vending business has long been the same: someone had a yen (and some coins) and someone else had to drive around and restock those hungry machines with bottles, underwear or dried squid. Now, the paradigm-busting idea is that a growing number of vending machines are beginning to dispense digital data, altering the economics of a business once largely dependent upon a complex system of resale and deliveries. As vending machines lumber into the information age, future purchases will just as likely come off a network...
Kodak's troubles exemplify the difficulty that any company has in handling paradigm shifts caused by technology. It has plowed billions of dollars into the digital business, which by 2005 should account for almost half its revenues. But its digital-camera division has yet to enter the black. "If you look at the hardware business alone, you'd probably never get into it," says Willy Shih, head of Kodak's Digital and Applied Imaging unit. Kodak is the worldwide leader in film cameras and has lately produced some sleek units. But in digital, Kodak trails Sony...
Conforming to this new paradigm takes a lot of work. Lek, a pure Thai bar girl, charms the men at the Rainbow Bar in the sleaze quarters of Bangkok. Since arriving in the big city, she has methodically eradicated all connections to her rural Asian past. The first to go was her flat, northeastern nose. For $240, a doctor raised the bridge to give her a Western profile. Then, Lek laid out $1,200 for plumper, silicone-filled breasts. Now, the 22-year-old is saving to have her eyes made rounder. By the time she has finished her plastic...
...There exists the material with which a new paradigm of relations can be born," she said. "Writers have already said goodbye to the old ways...it would be nice in this case if life would imitate...
Peeling away all the venomous prickles of the article by Justin G. Fong uncovers a bona fide attempt to provoke all Americans to question their identities, to free their minds from the social paradigm of race, and to seek out communities to which they are bound not superficially by chance at conception, but by a deeper-running social fabric...