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There are many prognostications about immediate technology… It is all Buck Rogers and it will happen. But, such speculation is a waste of time, it is more important to consider what will happen to our relationship one with another.
In its broadest aspect this area must be considered under ‘population.’ There has been a great debate about the so-called population explosion in recent years. This has been occasioned in part by the fact that we have only recently had accurate census in many countries. Even in Europe population figures only go back a short time.
In the USA, though there was an increase in the post-war birth rate between 1947 and 1954, since then it has declined. This trend is also evident in all the industrialized countries, including Russia. During the last 12 years then the birth rate has been declining in the industrialized countries, yet the main problem is thought to be population increase. The cause of the bulge in census population of these countries, is of course, that more people are living longer. But the underlying reality of the population problem, if there is a problem, is that as we industrialize, the rate of birth decreases. We may see this most clearly in, for example, the US, where the
