MDPE.20:7 - Consequences
Positive consequences:
- projects replace one fashionable future story with several testable developments;
- structural, perceptual, motor, teaching, media, recognition, selection, and retention mechanisms can compete without being collapsed;
- drift, branching, and no-attractor possibilities remain visible;
- any new observation or intervention is selected for decision contribution worth its full burden under feasible conditions;
- expert judgement remains usable with its limits distinguished from population measurement;
- forecasts can prepare a project for several developments; and
- direct Music, Dance, research, teaching, event, platform, and engineering Methods govern their respective Work.
Costs and limits:
- several trajectories require more thought than one extrapolation;
- observations can be slow, distributed, ethically sensitive, or confounded by the forecast itself;
- a bounded project rarely measures a whole cultural population;
- some mechanisms remain observationally hard to distinguish;
- interventions can move burden or change the practice being studied; and
- a forecast’s horizon bounds the claim it makes. Extending that claim needs an applicable basis; it does not invariably require fresh evidence. Reconsider the affected use when a relied-on premise changes, a justified review is due or an actual rights, resource or promised-use window ends. An older carrier alone creates no renewal obligation.