Employment

George at Urban Survival is a very public proponent of what seems to be a couple guys crunching bytes they find on the internet and using the frequency of various words to predict the future. The concept assumes the wisdom of crowds, and that collectively, we all know what’s coming, whether we all feel it in the ether, or are just projecting our intentions through our language. I have to admit a certain admiration for the work, as a fairly specific, yet cryptic prediction of a serious "wounding" affecting Vice President Cheney and his political life a while back became clear when Dick (accidentally) shot a Republican supporter in the face while hunting. That was a pretty good "hit," in my estimation.

Now, Urban Survival is crowing about the predictions made earlier this year of a summer "employment crash."

I don’t know how much more clear I could have been putting out the word much earlier this year about the "employment crash" that the time machine/predictive linguistics work of www.halfpasthuman.com said would be showing up by late summer. Sure, at the time with the economy perking along on a profitable war, and a fairly optimistic outlook, it wasn’t clear just where such a crash would come from, but here we are coming along to late summer and oh, lookie here, it’s the employment crash developing right on [linguistically foreseen] schedule.

It’s true. They’ve been trumpeting that for quite some time, but I leave it up to you whether you believe in this stuff or not. Keep in mind the successes are well documented, the misses not so.

But regardless, it’s interesting stuff and bears watching.

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