Wednesday, March 18, 2009

SA on a 'tipping point'?

Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell coined the phrase "The Tipping Point", in his attempt to explain how a body which exists for so long in a seemingly stable environment can rapidly and without warning change into an unrecognisable state of existence.

Gladwell argues that in such a case of sudden and accelerated change the body was in fact not stable, but rather balancing on a "tipping point" awaiting the slightest alteration in its environment to tip it over to where the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.

Source: News 24.com

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