Here is another post which might go some way to explaining my defiance of the Nordic data-hero Mr Rosling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197054 https:

Here is another post which might go some way to explaining my defiance of the Nordic data-hero Mr Rosling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197054 I love Han's charts too, I do appreciate the significance of growth for the world over the past few centuries but I just can't sit and as one fellow said: "lie back and allow the movie of the future to unfold". In the 70s with OPEC, the Club of Rome, there was a lot of feeling in the air that we were plateauing, even declining. That turned out not to quite be true, but nonetheless it was some kind of important inflection point where something started happening or stopped working. If 2008 was a similar inflection point then it is time to consider the possibility we may be going into a stall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_%28engine%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_%28engine%29) instead of progressing.