When MIT Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy Thomas S. Kuhn published the landmark study, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, postmodernism had yet to be invented. Nonetheless, Kuhn's thesis that scientific knowledge was based on research models established through consensus of the scientific community, and that these "paradigm shifts" set the criteria for subsequent scientific knowledge, in many ways began the critique of science that would contribute to many postmodern philosophical critiques. The most shocking conclusion of Kuhn's work, to the orthodox scientific community, was that scientific knowledge is based on subjective beliefs and that objectivity is a constructed consensus among the scientific community. Since logical positivism had become part dogma and cult in England and America from the 1920s on, nobody had dared to suggest that science might be just another belief system, but after The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the field of science studies is now a critical component of any serious philosophical discussions. With the digital revolution and the cult of quantification, which has infected all parts of human life, Kuhn's work and the critiques of science that it engendered, are more and more relevant each passing day.