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← Previous segment →you wait for the Whiteboard of Wisdom. That's right, it got branded. It's not just a whiteboard now, it's the Whiteboard of Wisdom. And later I will solve one of the biggest mysteries in the world at the same time as solving one of the biggest problems in the world. And if you don't think I can do that, you wait. Challenge accepted.
Let's talk about Florida. So there's a place called Babcock Ranch, which is not the joke. That's just the real name of it. It's just Babcock, not Badcock. It's B-A-B as in boy, not B-A-D. Ranch is also in Florida. You don't want to go there, right? Make sure you don't go to the wrong ranch. Badcock, stay away. Babcock, nice place. And one of the nice things about it is it was designed to be resistant to this specific natural disaster. I didn't even know this was a thing. But first of all, it's all solar. So the whole town is solar and it didn't lose its power. So the first test was, did it lose its power? Nope. It was actually self-contained. And I don't know how it was self-contained because I don't think they all had batteries. So that part I don't get. Maybe they did. Maybe they had more batteries than I thought. But they said they didn't lose their power somehow.
But here was the interesting thing. They built the community with streets that were designed to handle the flooding, to keep the flooding out of the homes. Now I don't know exactly what that looks like, but I'm guessing the streets are maybe sunken down a little bit or something so that actually the homes didn't get flooded. And they didn't lose their power. And I think the homes were built to withstand the wind. So they basically, the whole thing worked. Or the houses are higher. But they did mention the roads specifically. So it could be the roads just have really good drainage or something. It might be a drainage issue.
Yeah, so the town, what town is it? Are you seriously asking me what town it is? It's Babcock Ranch, not to be confused with, well we've already done that.
This goes to my prediction, which every time I say it is me
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t with total silence. This is one of my biggest predictions in the whole world and nobody ever even responds to it. I just put it out there and people are like, yeah, okay, whatever. All right, here it is again. The biggest economic market in the future besides robots is building communities from scratch. And here's why. If you build a community from scratch, they didn't even have to leave. They j…
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