Unpreparedness

Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s): 
Unreadiness
Undeveloped forward plan
Undeveloped future plan
Inadequate foresight capacity
Lack of lookout capacity
Inability to anticipate future development
Surprise-free policy-making
Improvidence
Claim 
1. History is full of examples of managed systems that have come to grief through an inability to understand or respond appropriately to surprises, notably in relation to natural disasters (floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, epidemics). Yet failures of this kind are now more dangerous than ever before, since the margin of acceptable error in managing the Earth and its resources is rapidly disappearing.

2. Most of your best photographic shots are taken with the lens cap on.

Broader 
Inadequacy
Narrower 
Global warming
Lack of planning
Today mindset dependence
Industrial unpreparedness
Inadequate security system
Non-recognition of problems
Underdevelopment of countries
Ineffective scheduling ability
Threatened species of Apalis karamojae
Failure to respond to emerging threats
Unrecognized future financial commitments
Inadequate investment in capacity building
Related 
Error
Neglect
Decline
Inactivity
Impropriety
Incompetence
Oversimplification
Inaccurate forecasting
Aggravates 
Vulnerability
Aggravated by 
Immaturity
Forgetfulness
Nuclear freeze
Lack of ability
Impaired vigilance
Temporal deprivation
Inadequate army discipline
Avoidance of negative feedback
Unknowable future patterns of social choice
Inhibited capacity to visualize a creative future
Strategy(ies) 
Envisioning future development
Researching futures
Developing forward plan
Preparing
Being prepared
Taking advantage of unreadiness
Acting cautiously
Improving foresight capacity
Providing sufficient lookout capacity
Doing without adequate lookout capacity
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems