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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 before us, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is an [[Indeterminate liability|indeterminate]] time of hope and aspiration: a sunlit dream-time in which there ''will'' be budget 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 before us, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is an [[Indeterminate liability|indeterminate]] time of hope and aspiration: a sunlit dream-time in which there ''will'' be budget 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 is too small to pass muster, its [[present value]] when delivered at some unknowable time in the future is surely smaller still. | 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. Through what of contortion in the [[Space-tedium continuum|spacetedium continuum]] must we crawl to reach that happy land? | ||
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. | 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. | ||