Deciding not to decide

Name: Deciding not to decide
Brand: Éditions Quae
SKU: 9782759225415
Price: 16.0 EUR
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ISBN: 978-2-7592-2541-5

What makes it so difficult?

by Michel Claessens (writer)

Collection: Essais

october 2016

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After In Praise of Incompetence, the author revisits another topic which is familiar to all of us: decision making, or more exactly, the lack thereof. In many fields, indeed, non-decision-makers are in control. Is it because we are lazy or lacking courage, or is it a mere consequence of the fact that everything is increasingly complex?

Everywhere, it seems to be a major trend. In politics as well as in science and technology, no decisions are taken or there is nothing to decide. Nuclear energy, climate change or genetically-modified organisms—these are just a few areas that are increasingly affected.

Three types of non-decisions are presented in this book. Some non-decisions are just a kind of decision, albeit peculiar and rather trivial; others, by contrast, are the result of specific mechanisms in which new and global technology plays a key role and contributes to their expansion in our society. This excursion into the country of blockages and laissez faire will lead us to discover a yet unknown face of technology.

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