Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans 473
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from the more-work-for-the-robots dept.
New submitter arcite writes "It's official: planet Earth is now home to over seven billion ugly-bags-of-mostly-water (otherwise known as humans). We're adding ten thousand new humans every hour, or one billion every nine years. Head over to 7 Billion Actions (put together by the UN with the help of SAP) and check out the population map data. Short of adopting a strict diet of Soylent Green, what viable solutions will enable us to survive on this increasingly crowded pale blue dot? What will the role of technology be in supporting this many people?"
virtualization (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously the solution is to transition away from the current paradigm, where every person has their own physical hardware. We must move to a new architecture, where a single body can concurrently run numerous minds, greatly increasing overall efficiency and reducing waste.
I would come up with a clever acronym, but schizophrenia has way too many letters.
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)
Thats 167 rounds per minute, which isn't really that fast of a cyclic rate for a modern automatic weapon.
The trick is getting them to stand still while you reload.
Re:Overpopulation is not a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Interestingly enough, in 75 years time there may be the reverse problem - population *shrinkage*.
We were in the pool!