Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Population
Projecting population this century is hard, because we are a civilization currently very confined to our growth urges by ecological and resource limitation concerns. I would guess that by the year 2100 we'll either have those issues mostly solved, or we'll pretty much cease as a civilization in the modern context. By that same time, I would expect average lifespan to have risen to well over 100, and with no effective limit on what age an adult could have a child at. There are just too many technological pathways emerging for that not to be the case.
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