The idea that the development of 4k and 8k video capture will automatically lead to a paradigm shift in sports and photojournalism is not borne out by the past. I watched a film called "The Paradigm Shift" about a decade ago; it focused on the relatively rare paradigm shift phenomenon. Paradigm shifts are not common, and the odd thing about them is that they are often predicted--but they seldom actually happen. And when they do happen, almost always, the shift comes from ideas brought forth by people or companies that are OUTSIDE of the industry in which the shift occurs. For example, the movie examined the case of a high-miles-per-gallon car design contest offering a large monetary prize was announced.
The usual suspects, the auto companies' engineering departments, as well at MIT and RIT and Cal-Berkeley engineering groups, and other associated engineering "geniuses" came up with...the same old chit...same-old,same-old...it took outsiders, and neophytes, to win the competition.
The winners? A group of high school students who used a car that looked like a dragster...huge rear tires, small front tires, and a small engine to get the car moving--and then, in a true paradigm shift, they had a propulsion system based upon hydraulic cylinders that could store tremendous amounts of energy. ALL the other groups focused on small displacement internal combustion engines. But...did this amazing, over 100 mpg car ever develop into a paradigm shifting reality....uh....no.
I recall reading old, 1950's copies of Popular Mechanics in the early 1970's; issue after issue predicted air-cars in 50 years. That was the paradigm shift the experts just KNEW would be the next big thing in automobiles....personal "air-cars". I mean, we had decent aircraft then...aircraft had been around since the early 1900's, so, 40 years or so...what the heck happened?
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