[LMB] [OT] May I do this?

[James Nicoll]

OK, here's the question. No offense to anyone intended.

 	Suppose you are told the Earth of AD 2300 has the following
characteristics:

> No space exploitation beyond information retrieval.
>
>         36 billion people (Africa ~ 22%, Asia ~ 57%, Latin
> America and Caribbean ~ 9%, North America 6%, Europe ~ 6%,
> Oceania ~ ha!). Age distribution is fairly flat, distributed
> mainly between 0 and 100 years (although a minority of the
> population is older than 100 years of age).
>
>         What would you expect such a world to be like?
> (Explain your reasoning.)