"A whorish move," he allows sheepishly the next morning on the bus, "but.... " From out of the conflict between utopia and anarchy has emerged moral ambiguity and complexity.
As I write in Unaccountable, with the rise of new media, corporate power flowing in directions never before seen, and influential legal and public relations firms, a whole new breed of Washington player has emerged, where ambiguity is crucial to both success and deniability.
Such situations include, among others, application of emerging technologies (high ambiguity) and radical innovations (indeterminate uncertainty).
A condition of ambiguity emerges where the problem lies in agreeing on the appropriate values, priorities, assumptions, or boundaries to be applied to the definition of possible outcomes.
Ambiguity emerges from perceptions that decisions concerning treatment and care should be embedded in the traditional domain of the doctor, rather than the nurse.
Not only can scientific interpretations have an ambiguous component, but ambiguity also emerges with regard to selection of appropriate values, priorities, assumptions, ethics, distributions of risk, and quality of life parameters to be applied.
Again, this seems minor, but it eliminated the ambiguity that plagues SMS — which was emerging as Messenger's true competitor after Facebook acquired WhatsApp earlier in 2014.
Institutions in emerging markets are characterized by rapid changes that increase the ambiguity of the decision-making process for managers.
Its alleged 'neutrality' is one of the main reasons of its pervasiveness, but also of its ambiguity, showing latent controversial implications, which are progressively emerging in critical planning theory.
