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This talk was given at Conference Center in Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California on Friday August 13, 02004
Phillip Longman
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No need to summarize this time. Phillip Longman wrote out his whole talk, with the illustrations more viewable even than they were at the Seminar and talk.
It is full of rethink-the-news sentences like: “Notice that Japan’s lengthening recession began just as continuously falling fertility rates at last caused its working-age population to begin shrinking in relative size.”
One thing worth adding from the Q&A at Phil’s public lecture August 13th. Kevin Kelly asked him what he thought the world might feel like in 100 years.
“People a century from now will have so few blood relatives I think it could be very lonely.” The audience, convinced by then, was utterly still.
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