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"trial parity with the west in about five years. India will probably be even faster. The acceleration of capabilities coming to bear on India and Africa are of the very highest. As far as one can see, industrialization will be worldwide by 1985.
"By this date, as the world industrial process is completing, and birth rates reducing, every individual human being will still have about ten acres of dry land and approximately 20 acres of ocean averaging half a mile deep. In terms of a family of five that would be 50 acres of land and 100 acres of ocean–150 acres per family. The amount of food supply would be ample.
“We may glimpse in such patterning certain total behaviors in Universe that we know little about. We noted, for instance, that as survival rate and life sustaining capability increased fewer birth starts were required. This may be related to our developing capacities in interchanging our physical parts, of producing mechanical organs, of having progressively fewer human organisms to replenish. The drive in humanity to reproduce as prodigally as possible decreases considerably. This may be reflected in social behaviors-- when all the girls”
