Bob McDaniel wrote:
>
> John McCarthy of Stanford has another take on the future:
> <http://www-formal.Stanford.EDU/jmc/progress/>
>
> (An extract)
> This page and its satellites will contain references to articles, my own
> and by others, explaining how humanity is likely to advance in the near
> future. In particular, we argue that the whole world can reach and
> maintain American standards of living with a population of even 15
> billion.
[snip]
Does this include at least a quarter-acre detached private
house in a Levittown for each "household" of those 15 billion?
I would again recall the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company logo:
a big bucket of paint above the North Pole, pouring out a huge
viscous glop of paint over the entire planet, totally covering
the Northern hemisphere and driping off below the Equator,
with the slogan:
Cover the Earth
Less is more.
\brad mccormick
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