discontinuity

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Planck and the Black Body Discontinuity is a mixed bag: some good historiography and some poor analysis.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2018

“Businessmen are just as sentimental about yesterday as bureaucrats,” Drucker wrote in The Age of Discontinuity.

From Time • Dec. 4, 2013

The first, as he explained in his 1968 book, The Age of Discontinuity, was that education creates higher expectations without any guarantee of higher productive capacity.

From Time • Oct. 15, 2013

When it comes to the micro-economy of producer, consumer and market, “much of what is considered ‘knowledge’ is really untested opinion, if not near-anecdote,” Drucker wrote in The Age of Discontinuity.

From Time • Aug. 7, 2013

We call it the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, after the Yugoslav scientist who discovered it by analysis of seismic tracings.

From The Flaming Mountain by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)