Why?

Cities have super-liner scaling with respect to things like disease. That is why New York emptied out in 2020. That is why rural real estate is booming.  That is what brought you to Montana, or Upstate, and to this page.

Pandemics are not the only trouble with cities.

It turns out that our cities' current electric infrastructure was built (long ago) in a way that is largely incompatible with a future filled with resilient human technological development. In short, it was built without relevant knowledge of our sun's electromagnetic impact on earth. 

In fact, today's electric grid, and cities, are efficient, but not particularly secure or resilient.  Urban dependence on the one-day-ahead shipping economy and aging electric grid has bred great vulnerability for urban inhabitants - should that global delivery system fail for a period of more than three months, cities will die. Rural populations are more secure. The threats are as simple as a virus. And as complex as understanding solar physics. Given current political divides, this could end in a urban v. rural catastrophe.  

The division between masks and non-maskers during covid-19 is proving that point - which we first made some years before covid-19 struck. 

Knowledge increasingly is stored digitally, but is vulnerable to inevitable black swan events.

This knowledge loss risk results from technological dependence. This does not mean technology or innovation is not great. It means we should hedge our exposure to technological advances by making our cities more fractal (principally - distributed, modular, and beautiful.) This follows design principles that mirror nature. This new program starts with making electricity (and antibiotic manufacturing) more fractal.

In the words of Geoffrey West, parts of Cities do not follow biological scaling laws, and create super-linear scaling with respect to risk of crime and disease. This can be remedied by distributing populations (and supply chains) in more fractal ways. Seriously.

By way of example, the Titanic (the most advanced technology at the time) did not have enough lifeboats (and was alone in a frigid ocean, like humans are possibly alone amidst a freezing cold universe). We are designing new city infrastructure modules to act as an armada of nesting ships, each with nested lifeboats and life jackets for when we hit the metaphorical iceberg. The question lies at the proper scale of the "terminal unit."​

How?

We help you prepare in concert with professionals and loved ones. Together, we can copy nature's more elegant structures, including quantum physics (fractality).

We like to start with a definition. Tomorrow's “city” will be defined as “a bounded, modular, and distributed unit of humans capable of indefinite self sustenance and replication." It’s inhabitants will still be human, and still need the support of our digital lives.

Open, closed, and partial open closed microgrids inside of everyday household objects is the next step. We are starting with what we call the SKŪB. As an estate planning client, you get early access to this device, a replacement of your coffee table. 

​Store your Estate Plan and life’s most precious data, securely, for a lifetime.

Community Adaptation is driving the change in what it means to be a human in the city in tomorrow's world.

Frank Loyd Wright's Drawing of his City-Tower. Probably not the right scale, but beautiful nonetheless.

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