On 1/11/06, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can just lump them under one memetic label encouraging high > birth rate.
There is a nice talk on 'The Depopulation Problem' given by Phillip Longman as part of the Long Now Foundation's monthly talks at: http://seminars.moose.cc/salt-0200408-longman/salt-0200408-longman.mp3 According to this guy, the birth rate in islamic countries is also falling. > My eventual conclusion is that all of the humanity is finished, > and that machines will rule the earth. Soon, maybe even within > our lifetimes. Another interesting Long Now talk was 'The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole' by Bruce Sterling: http://seminars.moose.cc/salt-0200406-sterling/salt-0200406-sterling.mp3 An excellent listen. Thaths -- "A gun is not a weapon Marge, it's a tool. Like a butcher knife, or a harpoon, or... or an alligator." -- Homer J. Simpson
