The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Change the World

Re:The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Chang... by ryanwaggoner on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @02:43PM (#1081422)

I fucking hate Scribd; here is the original article:

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/65877

And PDF version:

http://andrewgrahamnyc.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/the-new-p...

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Re:The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Chang... by Sukotto on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @03:29PM (#1081666)

Scribd: bringing the worst of flash and PDF together in one annoying package.

Thanks for the links. I wish I could mod you up more than just +1

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Re:The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Chang... by billswift on Thursday January 28, 2010 @01:40PM (#1084605)

I love your description of Scribd - does anyone here know what audience scribd was intended for or what problem it was supposed to address? I can't see any possible benefit from the way it works and wonder what I am missing.

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Re:The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Chang... by ryanwaggoner on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:28PM (#1085088)

The cynic in me says that the problem they were attempting to address was the lack of money in their pocket, and the solution they came up with was to release a platform ostensibly about displaying PDF files for the web (which is ridiculous to start with, but whatever), so they could get users to steal other people's content for them, and then run ads against that content. Huzzah!

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Re:The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Chang... by robg on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:34PM (#1081935)

I got a login required on the FA site. Thanks for the pdf.

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Re:The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Chang... by ryanwaggoner on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:39PM (#1081949)

Arg...I found it through Google, so they didn't give me that. Sorry :(

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