When I lived in Minnesota, it was relatively uncommon to hear a foreign language being spoken. When you heard it, you noticed. Now I live in Florida, but not just anywhere; I live on 'Florida's Riviera'. It is officially, Sunny Isles Beach, but the true boundaries include Bal Harbor, Golden Beach and Aventura East of Biscayne Boulevard.
I was mentioning to a friend just the other day that I have stopped noticing that I am living in the middle of Babel. I speak Russian, some German and some Spanish. But that doesn't even begin to cover what we hear in this town. Portuguese, Hebrew, French, Bulgarian, Italian, Hungarian and many more languages are common enough to hear a couple of times per day.
Some of that is because we are a tourist destination. However, tourist season is over now and the proliferation of languages continues. These languages are coming from what I might call International itinerants. The Mansions at Acqualina just announced that they have sold two of their $16 million penthouses, one to a Russian family the other to a South American family, most likely either Argentinian or Brazilian. What is astonishing is that in neither case will these likely be their primary residence. These are second, third or even fourth residences.
A real estate agent I was speaking with told me that, with private jets and 'jet cards', families are going one place for a month, another place for two weeks, etc. The children have a nanny or tutor that travels with the family. They really are not permanent residents anywhere, but they, based upon arcane legal analyses, maintain the fiction of residence at one locale.
This is the future. In reality, Sunny Isles Beach is not part of America. It is a new kind of place. True, the legal jurisdiction is U.S., Florida, Miami-Dade, but the cultural, social and economic reality is that it is a EuroAmerican village. People are from Rio/Banf, Sunny Isles Beach or Moscow/Cern/Sunny Isles Beach or Toronto/Hamptons/Sunny Isles Beach.
The other day at the Starbucks, I heard two men talking. One said that they were next going to go to Rio. The other man asked what it was like there now. The first replied that it is very similar to Sunny Isles Beach in the winter. The second said that it sounded good and that he and his wife would meet them there. Where do they live? The short answer is, 'Where ever they want.'
While the great contemporary civilizations, EuroAmerica, China, India and Islam will likely persist for quite some time, we are seeing here the seeds of the destruction of the Nation State as the dominant expression of sovereignty. If you life in Omaha or Portland, you probably don't notice yet. However, it will be coming to your town, too.
An important aspect of this is how rapidly Sunny Isles Beach formed. In 1999 it was here as a EuroAmerican Village. by 2007 it existed in mature form. That is how quickly it can happen, no matter where you are.
Showing posts with label Polymathica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polymathica. Show all posts
Friday, May 25, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Boutique Villages Charge Forward and Stall
90% of the agricultural lands in the Bahamas is owned by the government. These lands that have always been marginal for growing things, over the next twenty years, will become prime real estate for development. As incomes explode, people acquire a 'live anywhere' capability and retired baby boomers also find they can live anywhere, every nook and cranny will get developed.
However, the Bahamas represents some of the best opportunities anywhere. The Acklins archipelago is about 200 square miles and has a grand total of about 800 people living there. The archipelago has over two hundred miles of shoreline and when developed will likely hold a population of over 1.7 million. Samana Cay is about 17 square miles and is uninhabited. It will likely be developed into something like the Hamptons and be home to about 100,000. Mayaguana is 105 square miles and will likely accommodate nearly 1,000,000 population.
The key issue is that the Bahamian government, who currently owns all this land and claims sovereignty over it until very recently seemed to be cooperating with the the inevitable process. They had created a joint venture with Boston's I-Group to develop a significant portion of Mayaguana. This, in combination with the Honduran free state initiative, was suggesting that at least some of the nations that would be attractive to boutique village developers were behaving in an enlightened and cooperative manner.
It was with sadness, then, that I learned today that the I-Group Mayaguana project has fallen through. This has disturbed at least some Bahamians as well. It is inevitable that The Bahamas will fill up with Knowledge Class Professionals from around the world. The land that it will require has a current market value of over 50 billion 2012USD and most of it is owned by the government. That is a huge sum of money for a government that currently has a 1.7 billion annual budget. It is only a matter of time before pure economics will move the discussion and prevailing attitudes toward development.
When developed, the real estate will have a value of nearly 25 trillion dollars. This is a staggering sum that will motivate people to extraordinary acts. It is possible that the Bahamas may be the first nation to fall to the Information Age, perhaps violently. It may be the first nation to be conquered by an NGO. Or it could be that interested parties will corrupt the government with piles of money just to big to ignore. Again, an enlightened government should learn from history, bow to the inevitable and create a strategy that maximizes their outcome.
Equitopia Productions is exciting. Mycroft's Business Lounge will be fun. However, for flat out size and affluence generation, nothing will compare with the Boutique Villages. As Thomas A. Stewart says, we are at the beginning of the biggest real estate boom in all of history. Furthermore, he underestimates its size by at least a factor of four. Over the next thirty years, Western civilization, alone, will build over a quadrillion dollars of real estate. That is enough money to create a million billionaires.
Of course, my interest is not primarily monetary. I want to build Polymathican villages, specifically designed to facilitate and enhance a Finely Crafted Life for people of refinement and erudition. The schools will be polymathic, the products in the retail shops will be refined, the neighbors will be refined and erudite. Yes, a few visionaries who design and build these villages will become very wealthy. However, thousands, even millions of people will have a home and that is of greater importance.
The first village will be somewhere in the Caribbean. The Bahamas are the most convenient, but if the government will not cooperate, we can build elsewhere. If Honduras can tolerate Libertarians, they should definitely welcome us. Over time, however, the Polymathican global culture will likely reach a population of over 15 million and will require the construction of 500 villages. That is enough so that we can build them in the tropics, in the temperate zones, near the ocean, in the mountains and on the plains. We can make them urban, suburban and exurban.
As with all of the projects that I am initiating, if you are interested in participating in the planning, design and/or construction boutique villages for Polymathicans, drop me your e-mail address and I will put you on my private lists and venues. I cannot and do not want to be everywhere at once, so leadership opportunities abound.
However, the Bahamas represents some of the best opportunities anywhere. The Acklins archipelago is about 200 square miles and has a grand total of about 800 people living there. The archipelago has over two hundred miles of shoreline and when developed will likely hold a population of over 1.7 million. Samana Cay is about 17 square miles and is uninhabited. It will likely be developed into something like the Hamptons and be home to about 100,000. Mayaguana is 105 square miles and will likely accommodate nearly 1,000,000 population.
The key issue is that the Bahamian government, who currently owns all this land and claims sovereignty over it until very recently seemed to be cooperating with the the inevitable process. They had created a joint venture with Boston's I-Group to develop a significant portion of Mayaguana. This, in combination with the Honduran free state initiative, was suggesting that at least some of the nations that would be attractive to boutique village developers were behaving in an enlightened and cooperative manner.
It was with sadness, then, that I learned today that the I-Group Mayaguana project has fallen through. This has disturbed at least some Bahamians as well. It is inevitable that The Bahamas will fill up with Knowledge Class Professionals from around the world. The land that it will require has a current market value of over 50 billion 2012USD and most of it is owned by the government. That is a huge sum of money for a government that currently has a 1.7 billion annual budget. It is only a matter of time before pure economics will move the discussion and prevailing attitudes toward development.
When developed, the real estate will have a value of nearly 25 trillion dollars. This is a staggering sum that will motivate people to extraordinary acts. It is possible that the Bahamas may be the first nation to fall to the Information Age, perhaps violently. It may be the first nation to be conquered by an NGO. Or it could be that interested parties will corrupt the government with piles of money just to big to ignore. Again, an enlightened government should learn from history, bow to the inevitable and create a strategy that maximizes their outcome.
Equitopia Productions is exciting. Mycroft's Business Lounge will be fun. However, for flat out size and affluence generation, nothing will compare with the Boutique Villages. As Thomas A. Stewart says, we are at the beginning of the biggest real estate boom in all of history. Furthermore, he underestimates its size by at least a factor of four. Over the next thirty years, Western civilization, alone, will build over a quadrillion dollars of real estate. That is enough money to create a million billionaires.
Of course, my interest is not primarily monetary. I want to build Polymathican villages, specifically designed to facilitate and enhance a Finely Crafted Life for people of refinement and erudition. The schools will be polymathic, the products in the retail shops will be refined, the neighbors will be refined and erudite. Yes, a few visionaries who design and build these villages will become very wealthy. However, thousands, even millions of people will have a home and that is of greater importance.
The first village will be somewhere in the Caribbean. The Bahamas are the most convenient, but if the government will not cooperate, we can build elsewhere. If Honduras can tolerate Libertarians, they should definitely welcome us. Over time, however, the Polymathican global culture will likely reach a population of over 15 million and will require the construction of 500 villages. That is enough so that we can build them in the tropics, in the temperate zones, near the ocean, in the mountains and on the plains. We can make them urban, suburban and exurban.
As with all of the projects that I am initiating, if you are interested in participating in the planning, design and/or construction boutique villages for Polymathicans, drop me your e-mail address and I will put you on my private lists and venues. I cannot and do not want to be everywhere at once, so leadership opportunities abound.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Equitopia Productions
In 2001 I appeared on a public access talk show. I told the host that within a decade he would be able to upload his show onto the Internet and that anyone, anywhere, could watch it. Rather than having viewers in his cable distribution area, he could have viewers in Hong Kong, Argentina, Greece, Russia, South Africa, Cambodia, India. I confess, I did not envision a youtube.com as the primary delivery channel and I still don't. I also do not envision cable networks becoming Internet networks. Finally, Netflix, Hulu, etc. are also not likely to be the final state of Internet television.
In The Future 1o1 premium service I have a 'maintained' white paper entitled 'The Age of Boutique Everything' where I explore in great detail the likely evolution of Internet television. Since I have been thinking about it for over a decade and a half, I do have a bit of a head start on most pundits.
I have a basic aversion to membership in the Chattering Class and consequently, whether you choose to become involved in The Polymathic Institute at the Membership level or the Fellowship level, talk is followed by a bias toward action. In other words, I may spend a whole lot of time exploring Internet television, but I will also provide venues for turning those ideas into projects and enterprises.
Last week, The Polymathic Institute and Wallace Rothman, a young Harvard MBA holder and Columbia PhD candidate, have agreed in principle to form Equitopia Productions, Inc. which will serve as general and managing partner to a series of LLPs that will fund and produce niche market, 'made-for-Internet' programming.
Equitopia Productions will package the created content and provide plug-in modules to niche websites that will allow them to gain income from traffic through streaming and downloading. This will provide blogs, targeted social media, niche marketing sites, etc. with the opportunity to improve monetization through high income and highly compatible product offerings. Polymathica will provide to its members programming of refinement and erudition.
Equitopia Productions will provide dozens, perhaps hundreds, of opportunities to Members and Fellows of the Polymathic Institute to create a career in Internet News and Entertainment. These may be in writing, punditry, production or, through the LLPs, passive investment.
This is just one of many large projects that will provide the opportunity for a Knowledge Class career and income.
The Polymathic Institute supports polymathic education, research, careers and lifestyles. One may become involved as a Member, Fellow or Senior Fellow. If you would like to learn more about becoming involved, please e-mail or message me.
In The Future 1o1 premium service I have a 'maintained' white paper entitled 'The Age of Boutique Everything' where I explore in great detail the likely evolution of Internet television. Since I have been thinking about it for over a decade and a half, I do have a bit of a head start on most pundits.
I have a basic aversion to membership in the Chattering Class and consequently, whether you choose to become involved in The Polymathic Institute at the Membership level or the Fellowship level, talk is followed by a bias toward action. In other words, I may spend a whole lot of time exploring Internet television, but I will also provide venues for turning those ideas into projects and enterprises.
Last week, The Polymathic Institute and Wallace Rothman, a young Harvard MBA holder and Columbia PhD candidate, have agreed in principle to form Equitopia Productions, Inc. which will serve as general and managing partner to a series of LLPs that will fund and produce niche market, 'made-for-Internet' programming.
Equitopia Productions will package the created content and provide plug-in modules to niche websites that will allow them to gain income from traffic through streaming and downloading. This will provide blogs, targeted social media, niche marketing sites, etc. with the opportunity to improve monetization through high income and highly compatible product offerings. Polymathica will provide to its members programming of refinement and erudition.
Equitopia Productions will provide dozens, perhaps hundreds, of opportunities to Members and Fellows of the Polymathic Institute to create a career in Internet News and Entertainment. These may be in writing, punditry, production or, through the LLPs, passive investment.
This is just one of many large projects that will provide the opportunity for a Knowledge Class career and income.
The Polymathic Institute supports polymathic education, research, careers and lifestyles. One may become involved as a Member, Fellow or Senior Fellow. If you would like to learn more about becoming involved, please e-mail or message me.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Punditry in the Information Age
ABSTRACT:
The first Knowledge Class career I am going to investigate in detail in The Future 101 premium service will be that of pundit. It includes columnists, bloggers, speakers, consultants, authors, etc. Currently, this is generally being understood to be people who write and speak with authority on civic matters. The definition, however, will be much more extensive in the Information Age.
For example, quibis astronomicae is a facezine that is providing an outlet to about a half dozen astronomy and space pundits. Such pundits will have increasing opportunities for compensated exposure much of which may reside in several boutique homepages. In the Information Age, there will be orchid growing pundits, antique Mercedes pundits, private equity market pundits, Thai cuisine pundits, well, the list almost doesn't end. Essentially anything that has blogs now will have pundits then.
To better understand the difference a blogger and a pundit, visit Dennis Prager's site. You will notice that he essentially has a blog under his link 'articles.' However, he also has audiocasts. He has a premium content subdirectory entitled Pagertopia, costing $54.95 per year. He sells Prager items in his store. Through groups he facilitates offline Prager fans. He has a tab, University, a series of 5 minute video lectures. And you can book him for a speaking engagement. That is how Dennis Prager has transcended a talk show radio personality and become a multi-service pundit. Of course, each pundit will create a web presence and their own unique combination of offerings.
By organizing the Polymathica market and making it readily and cost effectively available to aspiring pundits, the mass migration from marginal blogger, consultant, etc. to affluent pundit will begin. There will, of course, be behemoths in the market. However, the typical pundit, residing in the very, very long tail, will likely belong to a network or roundtable of a half a dozen pundits (as with quibis astronomicae) sporting 100,000 subscribers.
With a annual subscription of $54.95 for all six pundits, perceived value will be high. At this price point and audience, each pundit will realize a $500K 2012USD income. That is low by Knowledge Class standards, but, like Dennis Prager, they will have the opportunity to augment their income with speaking or consulting engagements, books, endorsed products, etc. Also, as the inexorable march into the post Income Explosion world of Finely Crafted Lives, subscription rolls and rates will increase.
Throughout the 2010's, the industry will grow to about $35 billion 2012USD, of which about $3.5 billion will be in Polymathica. However, as The Cultures of Affluence and their dedication to a Finely Crafted Life emerges, it will quickly grow by tenfold or more. At the outset, Polymathica.com will be able to support about 1,500 pundits. At maturity, that number will likely have grown to over 10,000.
For full article subscribe to The Future 101
The Polymathic Institute, through Polymathica.com, will be promoting a wide variety of pundits and providing them with the tools they will need to reach six figure incomes. The first step is to become a member
The first Knowledge Class career I am going to investigate in detail in The Future 101 premium service will be that of pundit. It includes columnists, bloggers, speakers, consultants, authors, etc. Currently, this is generally being understood to be people who write and speak with authority on civic matters. The definition, however, will be much more extensive in the Information Age.
For example, quibis astronomicae is a facezine that is providing an outlet to about a half dozen astronomy and space pundits. Such pundits will have increasing opportunities for compensated exposure much of which may reside in several boutique homepages. In the Information Age, there will be orchid growing pundits, antique Mercedes pundits, private equity market pundits, Thai cuisine pundits, well, the list almost doesn't end. Essentially anything that has blogs now will have pundits then.
To better understand the difference a blogger and a pundit, visit Dennis Prager's site. You will notice that he essentially has a blog under his link 'articles.' However, he also has audiocasts. He has a premium content subdirectory entitled Pagertopia, costing $54.95 per year. He sells Prager items in his store. Through groups he facilitates offline Prager fans. He has a tab, University, a series of 5 minute video lectures. And you can book him for a speaking engagement. That is how Dennis Prager has transcended a talk show radio personality and become a multi-service pundit. Of course, each pundit will create a web presence and their own unique combination of offerings.
By organizing the Polymathica market and making it readily and cost effectively available to aspiring pundits, the mass migration from marginal blogger, consultant, etc. to affluent pundit will begin. There will, of course, be behemoths in the market. However, the typical pundit, residing in the very, very long tail, will likely belong to a network or roundtable of a half a dozen pundits (as with quibis astronomicae) sporting 100,000 subscribers.
With a annual subscription of $54.95 for all six pundits, perceived value will be high. At this price point and audience, each pundit will realize a $500K 2012USD income. That is low by Knowledge Class standards, but, like Dennis Prager, they will have the opportunity to augment their income with speaking or consulting engagements, books, endorsed products, etc. Also, as the inexorable march into the post Income Explosion world of Finely Crafted Lives, subscription rolls and rates will increase.
Throughout the 2010's, the industry will grow to about $35 billion 2012USD, of which about $3.5 billion will be in Polymathica. However, as The Cultures of Affluence and their dedication to a Finely Crafted Life emerges, it will quickly grow by tenfold or more. At the outset, Polymathica.com will be able to support about 1,500 pundits. At maturity, that number will likely have grown to over 10,000.
For full article subscribe to The Future 101
The Polymathic Institute, through Polymathica.com, will be promoting a wide variety of pundits and providing them with the tools they will need to reach six figure incomes. The first step is to become a member
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