Fast decision technology has squeezed out the reflection time sound judgment needs

Evidence

Both public and private decisionmakers, however, currently possess the technological capacity to assimilate massive amounts of information, analyze that information, and make and communicate decisions in minutes, if not seconds. Technology simultaneously creates the potential for those decisions to have massive, distant, and irreversible consequences. What is missing, potentially removed from the decisionmaking equation, is the time necessary for prudential assessment, reflection, and contemplation prior to the exercise of judgment. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 984

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the polyad’s listening/observation-as-method thread and with ch8 on time standardization changing legal cognition.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source