If you have an interest in purchasing this book, then you already know that it contains many groundbreaking concepts, the most important of which is the paradigm shift, which has relevance way beyond the world of science.

This is the import of the book: while reading it, one begins to realize that as thorough and referenced it may be, it remains a very metaphoric model for the march of history within almost all disciplines, where the world of imagination somehow transforms our collective view and consequent mode of perception and action in all areas of life.

I, who am a musician by trade, had a particularized need to use the book to help understand the 20th century and its zeitgeist, post WWII especially. The world of science was, for that century, a seductive one and people of retentive intelligence found themselves enamored of its methods in their search for meaning post-holocaust and post-Hiroshima-Nagasaki.

As I sit at a computer in Japan writing this, the job of the 21st Century must be to begin to make sense of our collective recent history and to find the common threads that connect us all on the planet in constant global discussion on present issues as they present themselves.

The search for fresh perspectives is the real stuff of great science and we should feel compelled to race forward in search of them concerning our past. History will teach us, if we can understand and supercede it, as described so beautifully in Tom Kuhn's masterpiece.