The world population continues to increase and is projected to be over 10 billion in the future.
The global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998. The world’s population is expected to increase by nearly 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from the current 8 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 10.4 billion in the mid-2080s.
What other entities do you imagine collect and publish global population numbers and predict off of it? Do you have any source disputing any of it? When you see the sports scores for the Yankees or Mets in the New York Times are you suspicious they're lying or trying to deceive you?
Humanity went from the first flight to landing on the moon in 66 years. Do you really think 100 years from now we won't be able to custom engineer humans and grow them in artificial wombs? In fact I might even take a bet that we can already basically do that.
Agreed, the ability to custom engineer a person is dystopian, but a more limited version of that may become necessary If some environmental factor or vaccines or some other event renders humanity incapable of reproduction, which is a scenario explored in the movie Children of Men. You might also advocate for women where childbirth is impossible or carries a high risk that it would provide a way for them to to create biological children of their own. I have no idea about the precise mechanisms that generate distinct DNA from a child from parental chromosomes, but I will assume AI can be fed enough results from parental and child DNA tests for it to generate some routine on its own that can take a set of parental input DNA and spit out a resultant child DNA sequence.
The world population continues to increase and is projected to be over 10 billion in the future.
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population
Your source is the UN? Too funny.
What other entities do you imagine collect and publish global population numbers and predict off of it? Do you have any source disputing any of it? When you see the sports scores for the Yankees or Mets in the New York Times are you suspicious they're lying or trying to deceive you?
Yes world population will peak at 9-10 billion, then it will begin to plummet, 5 billion or lower by 2125. ~2 Billion by 2130.
Humanity went from the first flight to landing on the moon in 66 years. Do you really think 100 years from now we won't be able to custom engineer humans and grow them in artificial wombs? In fact I might even take a bet that we can already basically do that.
We shouldn't, even if we could. That is some seriously dystopian shit.
Agreed, the ability to custom engineer a person is dystopian, but a more limited version of that may become necessary If some environmental factor or vaccines or some other event renders humanity incapable of reproduction, which is a scenario explored in the movie Children of Men. You might also advocate for women where childbirth is impossible or carries a high risk that it would provide a way for them to to create biological children of their own. I have no idea about the precise mechanisms that generate distinct DNA from a child from parental chromosomes, but I will assume AI can be fed enough results from parental and child DNA tests for it to generate some routine on its own that can take a set of parental input DNA and spit out a resultant child DNA sequence.