{"id":366,"date":"2011-05-31T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=366"},"modified":"2011-05-31T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T01:03:57","slug":"smashing-paradigms-wired-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Smashing paradigms (Wired Article)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone challenges existing paradigms, it&#8217;s all to easy to scoff. My favourite paradigm smasher was Columbus.\u00a0 Prior to his epic adventure, everyone knew the world was flat &#8211; what else could it be?\u00a0 Now the world is round &#8211; what else could it be?<\/p>\n<p>A more recent example of paradigm smashing was profiled in this wonderful article in Wired.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the story of the invention of a craft that was presumed to be impossible:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Since Cavallaro first proposed Blackbird\u2019s design on the Internet, his concept has been ridiculed and lampooned in blogs and forums, and the idea has even been refuted in a national magazine. The debate recently reached a fever pitch among a certain type of geek, especially in Silicon Valley, so much so that some notable entrepreneurs, including Google\u2019s Larry Page, forked over the cash to let Cavallaro finally build the vehicle. After four years of online arguments, explanations, and insults, Cavallaro has brought his vision here\u2014to the Dirt Cup\u2014to prove he can beat the wind.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/02\/ff_fasterthanwind\/\">One Man\u2019s Quest to Outrace Wind | Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone challenges existing paradigms, it&#8217;s all to easy to scoff. My favourite paradigm smasher was Columbus.\u00a0 Prior to his epic adventure, everyone knew the world was flat &#8211; what else could it be?\u00a0 Now the world is round &#8211; what else could it be? A more recent example of paradigm smashing was profiled in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes","category-innovation-culture","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}