> Resource scarcity becomes a greater concern the greater the population
> becomes. With insufficient resources there is little anyone will be
> able to do to get off the planet.
> ...
> My theory, though, is that we need to treat the planet as basically
> a zero-sum game. It is about maximizing resource utilization and not
> about having more -- as you can't have more, there's a fixed amount.
Gosh Steven where did you get this idea that "there will never be enough"?
People in all but the poorest countries have had a greater standard of
living than ever before, due to the advances in science and technology in
only the last century. Given the current pitiful rate of investment in
"livingry" it's hard to predict what the human race might be capable of if
we actually put our minds to it. Do the advantages of having an extra
seven billion people around outweigh the disadvantages? Nobody seriously
gives this line of thought any consideration. Why?
* http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html
It's important to note that none of the projections on this page rely on
any new technology. Amusing nonetheless.
It's relevant because John McCarthy discovered Lisp which resulted in
Emacs and thus GNU.
-fenn
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