Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology

South Africa - a land of paradigm shifts. A land where we are willing to leave behind the old, to bravely accept the new. What do we need to exit the dark ages in the morphology of galaxies? How prevalent is the cherishing of old concepts? Traditional morphology has been `mask-oriented'', focusing on masks of dust and gas which may constitute only 5 percent of the dynamical mass of a galaxy. ...