nottoodistant
Nottoodistant is a term used in discussions of temporal perception and futurity to denote a subjective horizon beyond which events are considered distant and less influential on current decisions. It describes a zone in which people feel confident that future outcomes can still be influenced by present actions, in contrast to near-term considerations that more directly shape behavior. The concept is not tied to a single discipline and has appeared in psychology, behavioral economics, urban planning, and human-computer interaction to analyze how people reason about future outcomes.
Origins and usage of the term are anchored in natural language and interdisciplinary studies of time perception.
Applications of the concept span several fields. In psychology, nottoodistant is used to examine how perceived
Criticism of the term centers on its vagueness and overlap with established notions such as temporal discounting