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   "text": "Western democracies still run on structures developed decades or centuries ago and have no formal interaction with the new data stream produced by modern information technology.",
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   "text": "Economic institutions that rely on lagging indicators such as price signals, employment data, and GDP reports cannot detect AI driven transformation, because the transformation propagates faster than the monitoring systems built to observe it.",
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   "text": "The institutional lag between technological capability and governance capacity is approaching a structural singularity in which governance instruments designed for the prior era cannot meaningfully constrain or direct the new forces.",
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