Yep. The fantasy of a high-tech robot society with no people is just that. A large population is necessary to maintain the specialization if labor that enables a technological society to be maintained.
We could probably lose some fraction of the population without catastrophic technological regress; e.g. the Black Death wiped out 1/3 of …
Yep. The fantasy of a high-tech robot society with no people is just that. A large population is necessary to maintain the specialization if labor that enables a technological society to be maintained.
We could probably lose some fraction of the population without catastrophic technological regress; e.g. the Black Death wiped out 1/3 of Europe and it didn't go back to the Bronze Age. But there are real limits and the Georgia Guidestones prescription of 500 million is under that limit.
Yep. The fantasy of a high-tech robot society with no people is just that. A large population is necessary to maintain the specialization if labor that enables a technological society to be maintained.
We could probably lose some fraction of the population without catastrophic technological regress; e.g. the Black Death wiped out 1/3 of Europe and it didn't go back to the Bronze Age. But there are real limits and the Georgia Guidestones prescription of 500 million is under that limit.
Don't worry John, those things are gone now...🤓