Here is one graph that looks to me as if we have no quenching yet: http://www.guibord.com/Democracy/files-images/World_Population_Graph.jpg
Here is another with obvious quenching: http://forumpolitics.com/pics/world-population-chart.jpg This one looks to me as if world human population growth changed from an exponential rate into a linear rate around 1970. Some nations' populations are imploding already, but overall the planetary population of homo sapiens is still growing rapidly, albeit perhaps no longer exponentially. Sooner or later there is always a rapid die-off of any living organism whose population has grown unchecked, whenever a critical resource is depleted; i.e., its growth becomes "saturated." For the purposes of IBM-MAIN, the most critical world resources are oxygen, food, water, and mainframes. At any rate, Machiavelli now has enough relatives to guarantee that any given relative's birthday will be equally as likely as a randomly chosen day of the year. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: O/Topic Selling poisoned software In <77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343c2f...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com>, on 06/28/2010 at 06:27 PM, Bill Fairchild <bi...@mainstar.com> said: >How many relatives did he have and does he still have? Tens of >billions. Is the number increasing exponentially? Yes. No. It's "quenched exponential growth", i.e., it starts out looking exponential until saturation sets in and the growth is quenched. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
