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◄Back New Technologies Patricia **__Paradigm Shift__** A paradigm shift is a change on the lifestyle and the way of thinking of the people. There has existed two major paradigm shifts through history and many people thinks that we are living the third one. Each one of these paradigm shifts happens throughout many centuries becuase its very difficult for people to change thier way of thinking and way of living.

The first paradigm shift that has occured in history, was the agricultural revolution. Before it, humans were hunters, hence they were nomadic. After this great change, man stayed in one place and make their own food to survive instead of chasing it. The second great paradigm shift was the industrial revolution, at this time the majority of people started to live in cities and worked in factories. People who choosed not to follow this 'industrial revolution' had to cope with some chenges, for example people who followed this paradigm shift had more money and more facilities and comodities. But as towns grew, other problems arise such as contamination to the surroundings.

We are living the third paradigm shift, the technological revolution or the 'second industral revolution' as it is also called. With the start of the use of computers, this change has started. This is probably the shift which has taken less time to take over more people. Everyone is somehow affected by the technological recolution, nowadays, everything is surrounded by computers, by machines with a 'brain' which respond to certain commands. Its very difficult to avoid this great change. Common things at home such as the microwave, washing machine, blender and many more are computers. The technological revolution has taken so much power that even now, many important declarations have made through 'twitter' or 'facebook'. For example, now even Obama has a twitter. Now, everything is done in or by computers.

__Sources:__ N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Mar 2010. <http://freebooks.uvu.edu/SOC1010/images/stories/Ch18/CH18photo1 Beekman, George, and Michael Quinn. //Tomorrow//. Eighth Edition. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 19. Print.