How Do You Start a Revolution for Systems Medicine in a Health Innovation Ecosystem? Think Orthogonally and Change Assumptions

This paper defines a revolution as an orthogonal change in direction, a 90-degree perpendicular turn from the status quo ways of thinking, being and doing, so as to create a complete break, an abolitionist rupture with current and past ways of producing knowledge. David Bowie was a relatable example of a revolutionary and orthogonal innovator who completely and courageously broke with the past and the present and opened up new vistas in music and performing arts. The late anthropologist and public intellectual David Graeber also argued that a revolution fundamentally changes the