I'm glad to note that the ugly sociological phrase "paradigm shift" has lost most of its former popularity. Magazines and newspapers and commentators are increasingly using the term "sea change," which Shakespeare coined (or so I once read) in Act I, Scene II of The Tempest.

Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples, is under the impression that his father died when their boat sank near an island. Sitting on the shore, he hears Ariel, the spirit whom Prospero commanded to sink the ship, singing nearby:

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Shakespeare meant "sea-change" a bit more literally, but as Bartleby notes, it now means any "marked transformation."

A nice little song, by the way, though I never really considered it an important part of The Tempest. A few hundred years later, T.S. Eliot stuck bits and pieces of it into The Waste Land, one of my favorite poems.