{"id":291,"date":"2026-05-05T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:22:11","slug":"discussion-board-the-short-arm-of-predictive-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/2026\/05\/05\/discussion-board-the-short-arm-of-predictive-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board: The &#8220;Short Arm&#8221; of Predictive Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"According to Jonas, the &#8220;short-armed&#8221; nature of predictive knowledge regarding long-term technological consequences necessitates a &#8220;heuristics of fear&#8221; that prioritizes caution and resilience over technical optimism. This approach requires shifting from static, reactive regulations to flexible, precautionary frameworks, treating the protection of the future as a mandatory constraint on all digital development. According to Jonas, the &#8220;short-armed&#8221; nature of predictive knowledge regarding long-term technological consequences necessitates a &#8220;heuristics of fear&#8221; that prioritizes caution and resilience over technical optimism. This approach requires shifting from static, reactive regulations to flexible, precautionary frameworks, treating the protection of the future as a mandatory constraint on all digital development.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jonas, the &#8220;short-armed&#8221; nature of predictive knowledge regarding long-term technological consequences necessitates a &#8220;heuristics of fear&#8221; that prioritizes caution and resilience over technical optimism. This approach requires shifting from static, reactive regulations to flexible, precautionary frameworks, treating the protection of the future as a mandatory constraint on all digital development. According to Jonas,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/2026\/05\/05\/discussion-board-the-short-arm-of-predictive-knowledge\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ralstonmitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}