Message no. 1

From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Population
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:31:07 -0600

Gurth wrote:
/
/ Ubiratan P. Alberton said on 16:35/26 Apr 98...
/
/ > Has everyone ever tough about how many people are there in 2060?
/ > Even with VITAS, there would be way more than today's 6 billion... I
/ > figured there would be from 30 to 40 billion inhabitants, but this is
/ > cyberpunk, so I go for the worse figure, 40 :) . Talk about
/ > superpopulation...
/
/ We did some semi-educated guesswork about this a few months ago. The
/ opinions varied a lot, and I don't remember the eventual outcome, but I do
/ know we didn't think it was 30+ billion people.

I think it was between 7 and 14 billion, depending on how
conservative or liberal one's estimates were.

-David
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