http://urbansurvival.com/What is 'UrbanSurvival"?
We've been asking the same thing...but serious...UrbanSurvival started as a multipurpose web site in 1995-96 as I was completing a Masters in Business Administration, while at the same time being an active participant in the University of Colorado's Center for a Sustainable Future's Long Wave ("Longwaves") Economics discussion group, which focused on the work of Nikolai Kondratiev (sometimes spelled Kondratieff). The way I arranged things, the initial site fulfilled three purposes: It provided a capstone project for my MBA, it gave me a "must do" vehicle to learn about web site construction which would gain me advantages as a sales & marketing expert (which I continue today, focusing on web-direct response/B2C for clients) and it provides an important alternative to the "me-too" corporate mainstream news genre, which takes a very shallow approach to most business and financial news.
This site is not overtly political, except insofar as the Western Capitalistic paradigm doesn't have ready answers to what happens when 7-billion humans reach the limit of the planet's carrying capacity. We look to daily news reports and academic studies for hints.
While the longer term outlook reflected here smacks of such landmark works as Robert Kaplan's book "The Coming Anarchy" and James Kunstler's "The Long Emergency," UrbanSurvival's goal is to try and put day-to-day news items into a workable and actionable perspective such that a long-term investor might react thoughtfully to events - often in advance of their occurrence. How can you do that, you're wondering?
We have friends who have developed a groundbreaking predictive technology which we simply call "web bot" technology developed by Cliff of www.halfpasthuman.com. The technology, which samples large portions of the public internet with an eye toward "sensing the future" based on subtle changes in language, seems to have given indications before-the-fact of a large number of major news events, including but not limited to our reports before the fact on things like:
· 911
· Sumatra
· New Orleans Katrina/Rita
· Cheney and his "accident"
· Sex Scandal just coming out
· Bushco and escalating disclosures
· Degrading of Iraqi's and Iraqi youth rebellion against US
· Silver exploding, followed by Gold
· Pakistan earthquake
· Climate change (the life-changing event)
· The multiple extraordinary hurricanes (with another season coming like the last)
· The increasing unpopularity of the Bush Administration leading up to the inevitable meltdown
· Space Shuttle explosion
· The unfolding disaster in Iraq
· Commodity shortages with more coming this summer (2006)
· Emerging and ongoing, oil price increases