From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 01:55:44 MDT
I've just stumbled upon this essay at
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue139/labnotes.html
using nothing more than the
science of demographics, we can make
some shrewd guesses about the course
of the next 50 years
[Wil McCarthy is a rocket guidance
engineer, robot designer, science fiction
author and occasional aquanaut. He
has contributed to three interplanetary
spacecraft, five communication and
weather satellites, a line of
landmine-clearing robots, and some
other "really cool stuff" he can't tell us
about. His short fiction has graced the
pages of Analog, Asimov's, SF Age and
other major publications]
McCarthy sees that aging might be modified eventually, but doesn't pay much
attention to, say, AI or nano minting. Still, his little piece is
interesting and optimistic.
Damien
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