[LINK] Exponential growth [was Microsoft is dead ... were it so!]

[Antony Barry]

On 13/04/2007, at 7:24 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:

> Precisely. When faced with a very difficult problem, humans used their
> strongest resource: intelligence, science, technology,  
> 'engineering' in
> the very broadest sense. They prevented what Erlich said could not be
> prevented.

Technology is not magic. "She'll be right" doesn't work with  
technology as there are limitations such as the first and second laws  
of thermodynamics. Unlimited growth is impossible in a finite system.

Tony

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