Austin Bunton Designs is ABD. What, as a company, is ABD all about right now, and what is ABD going to be doing, moving forward? We’re going to maintain the momentum we’ve established with our three-pronged approach; we will continue to release one novel each year until 2024, we will continue developing the in-game character form templates for the MMORPG based on the main city in that series of novels, and we will continue coordinating upcoming expeditions and other trips with our growing number of volunteers and interested experts.
Why are those three things ABD’s current focus and strategy? The books are a source of current and near-future passive income. The MMORPG will be a source of near-future and long-term passive income to a higher degree, and will provide much more useful data in the form of player activity and player feedback, which will be used to continue refining and perfecting the real-life design for the zero-pollution city and community that game introduces its subscribers to. Finally, the ongoing traveling, networking, and recruiting of top talent and representatives from around the world is how we not only bring the concepts to life via the books, and the books to more life via the MMORPG, but also everything in the books and game to life quite literally –via constructing the real city that they all stem from. So really, this can be summed up more accurately as a one-pronged approach; ABD is doing those things to make sure our zero-pollution fully-sustainable city design becomes an operational and livable working model.
So let’s talk about the book releases again. Their forecast general availability by year is mentioned in both the Store tab and Writing Universe tab of our website here. To get a little more into the details of this book-editing schedule of ours, we have the following:
- 2018: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every week –or more often; this year’s novel being about humanity’s route if a stance of living sustainably is not adopted, with the chapters covering plans and relocation experiences of large groups of climate-change refugees (and previous years’ novels being about: 1) the challenges that led me into the sustainability field, 2) where and how a great many people relocated to practice sustainability, and 3) the zero-pollution city design made real to showcase many sustainability technologies, the chapters of this third novel in the series introducing the construction schedule and other formative elements of that city, as well as some of the types of people who have been showing up to contribute to it)
- 2019: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every two weeks; this year’s novel being about which of the other sustainable communities have become attracted to us, who from them travels out to meet at our community as top representatives, and how normal (non-sustainable) cities have been accurately predicted to metastasize (which we have already seen between Dallas and Fort Worth, between Seattle and Tacoma, between Los Angeles and its suburbs, between Chicago and its suburbs, between New York City and its suburbs, and between virtually all of China’s and India’s cities, just to name a few)
- 2020: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every two weeks; this year’s novel being about why and how we explore, always to help others achieve sustainability, too, the chapters here introducing a few more of the types of people who will be helping us travel very cost-effectively out from Earth in any and all directions, hardly using any energy at all (because we have learned how to tap into the endless forces of nature)
- 2021: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every two weeks; this year’s novel being about how sustainability will play a part in long-distance Space travel, its chapters including those covering 1) how the Earth was finally stabilized centuries in the near future, 2) how those who venture out into Space maintain sustainability by proactively protecting the expensive and risky colonies we put out there, and 3) how we go about stabilizing the worlds we choose to settle, making our sustainability efforts much easier and longer-lasting
- 2022: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every two weeks; this year’s novel being about one of the social experiments designed to gauge compatibility with us, in other words: details on how we use regularly-occurring social interaction and joint-operations with potentially-compatible civilizations & species to promote better and full understanding of each other, which in turn promotes far more peace and conversation than war or confusion, which is arguably the most important method toward sustainability short of learning how to live in harmony with the local natural environments (the planetary and galactic wars of the past having destroyed more than most natural disasters, they having also used attacks designed to look like natural disasters, and so on)
- 2023: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every two weeks; this year’s novel being about when and why our sustainable community migrates as a whole, chapters in this novel including ones about the new forms of representative gatherings derived from the U.S. Congress, as well as where our newly-stabilized universe-wide and cultures-wide omni-cultural sustainability will take our flagship community (that first zero-pollution city which this website and our book series –and MMORPG– are all about)
- 2024: completing the editing of roughly one chapter every two weeks; this year’s novel being about major events of ancient history which make sustainability expertise critical, the chapters covering billions of years of known and conjectured pre-history milestones, all of which are completely related to the criticality of sustainability expertise
You’ve probably read our mentions of the three-phase view of life; things have been distinctly different in three different periods of time, the first being the most challenging. What is the latest on the observations of these phases?
- Phase 1: ABD’s focus was on finding sites of ancient ruins and other useful content to investigate, as well as finding people whose mindsets and actions might be aligned with our own. Our work was quiet, largely if not entirely R+D, and had to be completed during and between numerous recovery periods (as those we encountered consistently opted for the most unsustainable practices of all). This first phase was all about getting our bearings in these ways; bearings for all the years and two phases ahead.
- Phase 2: Our focus then shifted to going to those located ancient sites, and experiencing potential business partners in person. We were applying our ‘lessons learned’, rebuilding things such as our company website, choosing a new overall image for our endeavor, selecting much better office locations, and adding transparency to what we were doing.
- Phase 3: The focus of ABD is now to send its best members out to the most useful sites around the world, and for much more specific purposes than just going to them in person like before. The people we are interacting with, and planning interactions with at this point, are all and only the highest/top talent. This is leading us toward our first period of scaling and mass-production, as well as to our long-anticipated final physical location for this century.
Speaking of, we have a new office location in the United States. Once based on that new country’s south coast, then its west, then the east, then the border of Canada, then up alongside the water border with Russia, and now once again here alongside Canada, ABD is making great strides while securing majestic settings options for all its current and future employees. Where is our new location, though? If you’d like to work with us and are serious about applying, we’ll let you know once you have made it to the interviews stage.
We are replacing our work computers with top-of-the-line workstations. Having started with very simple and sometimes low-end laptops and tablets, this is a big deal; it means our available memory and processing power are skyrocketing. It means that, more than just drafting documents and building website skeletons, ABD is now able to design and test the most graphics-intensive games –which, of course, means that we are also now able to design and test full-scale real city blueprints to capacity; we can animate and gain incredible amounts of useful data from the maximum forecast and potential traffic, and other city-wide activity, of all kinds.
We used to be doing heavy exploration, networking, and recruiting. Now, we have shifted to pinpoint expeditions, issuing formal invitations for qualified people to consider joining us, and strengthening our existing network. We have gone from survival mode to expansion considerations. ABD is growing.
I’d like to thank each of you who has contributed to this years-long accomplishment of ours. To our artists, content contributors, doctors, fitness coaches, hosts, investors, planners, technical support specialists, tour guides, volunteers, and writers, thank you for all you have done to make ABD, our books, our game, our new office, our new job openings, and our ongoing expansion meetings possible. You may not know what a massive positive impact your donations and hard work have produced.
In the near future, I’ll be launching a podcast with monthly (and later perhaps weekly) updates which will be featured in this blog along with the other articles here. I’ll address questions and comments, communicate with you directly, and let you get to know myself and the other ABD leadership face to face. I’m looking forward to speaking with you at our online, teleconference, and expo events.
“To paradise and beyond.”
CEO Austin Bunton
