Our society is evolving. This evolutionary process is continual and incremental and
individual changes are often of such small increment that we fail to appreciate that they are
occurring. While 'paradigm social shifts', such as the move from the Cold War to the post
Cold War era, 1 the development of the post-industrial society2 and the arrival of the post
9/11 society3 are discussed at length, our analyses of the incremental developments are
more diffuse. This is to be expected: paradigm shifts reflect key social changes; incremental …