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If the statistical data in that article are correct then it is good news. A couple of sentences bothered me. "Extend the trend line, and within a few dozen generations you’re talking about a global population small enough to fit in a nursing home" and "And in the long term—on the order of centuries—we could be looking at the literal extinction of humanity."I would consider it just a joke, except that he spent a whole paragraph covering that. He should know that you can't interpolate a falling population trend line to zero without very strong reasons. Another interesting thing is that the data show that the smallest population growth is in the educated people that maintain careers. That makes sense, and it foretells a gradual change in the population mix. High tech is aiming for increased robotics to cut manufacturing costs. In semiconductor robotics, the goal is for "lights out" manufacturing - machines running at night with little supervision. When robotics reaches the stage of replacing currently very difficult manual labor how will the increasing population of uneducated people find jobs? Lots of cheap products and few with money to buy them. It will be an interesting economy.
If the statistical data in that article are correct then it is good news. A couple of sentences bothered me.
"Extend the trend line, and within a few dozen generations you’re talking about a global population small enough to fit in a nursing home" and "And in the long term—on the order of centuries—we could be looking at the literal extinction of humanity."
I would consider it just a joke, except that he spent a whole paragraph covering that. He should know that you can't interpolate a falling population trend line to zero without very strong reasons.
Another interesting thing is that the data show that the smallest population growth is in the educated people that maintain careers. That makes sense, and it foretells a gradual change in the population mix.
High tech is aiming for increased robotics to cut manufacturing costs. In semiconductor robotics, the goal is for "lights out" manufacturing - machines running at night with little supervision. When robotics reaches the stage of replacing currently very difficult manual labor how will the increasing population of uneducated people find jobs? Lots of cheap products and few with money to buy them. It will be an interesting economy.
