PARADIGM SHIFT is when fundamental perspectives change, as when we switched from the sun going around Earth to vice versa. In transportation the car represented a paradigm shift relative to railroads and the horse. Air travel was obviously a paradigm shift. Today there's paradigm shifts from hierarchial corporations to flat ones, from chain of command to networking, from capital as king to knowledge as king, from planned economies to market economies, and politically from nation states to globalism. If we find life on Mars or elsewhere - now there's a paradigm shift!
Ear of corn from Peru antique shop turned out to be a ceramic child's rattle.