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The population will never be high enough for neo-Tokyo to exist Futurists have done reasonable calculations showing we could have 100 billion on Earth alone, i
by stcredzero 8y ago
The population will never be high enough for neo-Tokyo to exist
Futurists have done reasonable calculations showing we could have 100 billion on Earth alone, if we have fusion power.
- drak0n1c 8y agoI fully agree that the Earth could sustain over a hundred billion people (and even keep vast natural spaces) with proper advances in infrastructure, construction, and technology. However, people just tend not to have enough babies to make the population grow much higher than the projected peak of 12-20 billion. Even the most fertile countries and cultures don't have the size and growth rates necessary the species to hit 100 billion. It would have to take some kind of massive program making hundreds of millions of extra babies per year in test tubes and implanting them in surrogates (or machine surrogates, if technology allows). I could see pseudo-religious motivations for such a thing (allowing every possible child to exist), or secular motivations (needing a vastly more productive and space-faring population, or creating a new form of egalitarianism by inundating births with masses of randomly-but-equally birthed). But that is social-science fiction on top of science fiction - the chances are slim.
- stcredzero 8y agoBut that is social-science fiction on top of science fiction - the chances are slim. Larry Niven predicted flash mobs. But instead of teleportaion, we had/have it through telecommunications technology.