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“When budget allows” is a mystical, [[hypothetical]] time in the future that, like Little Orphan Annie’s ''Tomorrow'', is always there, dangling tantalisingly in the future, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is the time when there ''will'' be budget, ''later'', to hook up that feed, build out that [[API]] or invest in that brilliant piece of [[legaltech]], for which there is ''no'' budget, ''now''. | “When budget allows” is a mystical, [[hypothetical]] time in the future that, like Little Orphan Annie’s ''Tomorrow'', is always there, dangling tantalisingly in the future, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is the time when there ''will'' be budget, ''later'', to hook up that feed, build out that [[API]] or invest in that brilliant piece of [[legaltech]], for which there is ''no'' budget, ''now''. | ||
Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. If the worth of the application now is too small, | Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. If the worth of the application ''now'' is is too small to pass muster, its [[present value]] when delivered at some unknowable time in the future is surely smaller still. How ? | ||
Their suspicions will be confirmed the minute they see the glint in [[middle management]]’s eye, for when it starts gabbling reverently about sorting this all out ''just as soon as budget allows'' — a time they can talk about with confidence and free of regret, while maintaining eye contact with a petitioning [[SME]], assuring her that all will be well. | Their suspicions will be confirmed the minute they see the glint in [[middle management]]’s eye, for when it starts gabbling reverently about sorting this all out ''just as soon as budget allows'' — a time they can talk about with confidence and free of regret, while maintaining eye contact with a petitioning [[SME]], assuring her that all will be well. For the “time in the future” is, literally, unknowable. In that it will never be known. | ||
For if there is not enough interest to shell out for it ''now'', | For if there is not enough interest to shell out for it ''now'', will it be any closer to that threshold ''next'' month, ''next'' quarter, or by the time the ''next'' fiscal budgeting cycle rolls around? | ||
Rhetorical question. | |||
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*[[Legal tech landscape]] | *[[Legal tech landscape]] | ||