Carol, bravo! These reviews of your two website choices, Hudson and RAND, are very, very exciting! Thank you for your careful analysis of their resources for researchers. Your humble servant here had the chance to visit RAND once. He interviewed the person in charge of securing R&D funding for special projects at RAND. What was stunning was the persons, a woman, had a Ph.D. in civil engineering from UCLA, and she was the fundraiser for RAND! This is impressive - big time! Her board of advisors included then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. When she was not raising research funds for projects that offered potential but still had nobody to pay for contract research about them, she tracked the price of water - globally! RAND is already tracking trends in water as a resource - in detail, depth (pun)! This was in 1985! RAND was already conducting trend forecasts on the availability or lack of it for this basic human survival resource. We cannot drink oil. As I waited for my turn to get security clearance to go to her office, I observed the special Pentagon couriers coming into the building - with briefcases chained to their wrists! thank you for taking me back in time to a very exciting trend forecasting think tank. If you have a chance visit it. Catch the energy!
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