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Re:Stewart Brand Says He’s Still an Optimist by mdaEyebot on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:41PM (#33487505)
The century will end in about 77.15 years, at which point most of us reading this will be dead.

A bit more than 'a few'.

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Re:Stewart Brand Says He’s Still an Optimist by pencilguin on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:52PM (#33487573)
There have been anatomically modern humans for ~300,000 years. We have had systematic agriculture for just a while.
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