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The conventional approach to economic development, to making poor countries rich, is based on a technocratic illusion: the belief that poverty is a purely technical problem amenable to such technical solutions as fertilizers, antibiotics, or nutritional supplements.
The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly
Emotional affect can be envisioned as a lens that constantly colors our realities. This lens is so pervasive and ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it’s there, unless our emotions become intense enough to demand and divert our attention.
Design for Emotion
Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams
In both cases the perception of anomaly—of a phenomenon, that is, for which his paradigm had not readied the investigator—played an essential role in preparing the way for perception of novelty. But, again in both cases, the perception that something had gone wrong was only the prelude to discovery.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
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