[LMB] [OT] May I do this?

[Dennis Smith]

Ok you asked :-)

You have not postulated any significant increases in technology or other
unusual events therefore

36 billion is almost 6 times the current population total. Without new
and advanced methods of food production (sea based or otherwise) you
have the potential more massive starvation.

Given your projected age ranges and distribution the closest thing I can
imagine is something like Robert Silverberg's 'the world inside' with
humanity crammed into mega structures using the barest minimal space so
that food production can occur everywhere else.

Sociologically thinking such a society would be radically different than
our own 

Dennis
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Subject: Re: [LMB] [OT] May I do this?


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.)
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