  We argue that recent developments in discretizations of classical and quantum
gravity imply a new paradigm for doing research in these areas. The paradigm
consists in discretizing the theory in such a way that the resulting discrete
theory has no constraints. This solves many of the hard conceptual problems of
quantum gravity. It also appears as a useful tool in some numerical simulations
of interest in classical relativity. We outline some of the salient aspects and
results of this new framework.
