Re:The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs
by danieltillett on Thursday December 25, 2014 @06:17PM
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>To explain this acceleration of technology, let's remind the exponential growth of population: There are more people on Earth than dead population since the birth of times
Actually there have been around 100 billion people born over this history of human kind. Given a bit over 7 billion people are still alive that suggests most people ever born are dead.
As an aside I have heard this suggested as an argument that the probability of death is not one. If only ~93% of all the people born have ever died then you can't be certain that everyone born will die.
Actually there have been around 100 billion people born over this history of human kind. Given a bit over 7 billion people are still alive that suggests most people ever born are dead.
As an aside I have heard this suggested as an argument that the probability of death is not one. If only ~93% of all the people born have ever died then you can't be certain that everyone born will die.