Fun with Trends

[Javaman]

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-03-20/fun-trends

If current population trends continue . . .

•The population of the United States will increase to over 600 million by 2080, and in 2150 it will equal China’s present size.
•World population will achieve 14 billion by the year 2075 and 30 billion by 2150.

If current energy trends continue . . .
•By 2015 China will be importing more oil than the United States does that year.
•By 2030 China will be absorbing all available global oil exports, leaving none for the US or Europe.
•In just 8 years China will be burning as much coal as the entire world uses today.
•Natural gas will be virtually free in the US by 2015.
•Officially assessed US natural gas reserves will be exhausted by 2025.

If current economic trends continue . . .
•China’s economy will be 8 times as big as it is today by 2040.
•China’s economy will surpass the size of the present global economy before 2050.
•The US federal debt will double—from $14 trillion to $28 trillion—by 2022.
•In 2072, the federal debt will amount to $896 trillion, or $1,629,091 for each American (assuming a US population then of 550 million).
•By the end of the century, each American will “owe” over a billion dollars.
•Thanks to the doubling of US households living on less than $2 per person per day between 1996 and 2011, in 150 years there will be about 1.5 billion Americans living on practically no income.
•The number of billionaires in the world (having grown from 793 to 1210 in just two years, from 2009 to 2011) will equal the world population in only 70 years. (Given the previous trend, this is especially gratifying news: since the rate of growth in the number of billionaires in the world exceeds the rate of growth in extreme poverty in the US, this means each American will become a billionaire before his or her grandchildren plunge into desperate poverty).

If current technology trends continue . . .
•Thanks to Moore’s Law (whereby the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years), within 20 years transistors will be the size of an atom, and after another generation or so, “transistors” (if they can be called such, at that point) they will be the size of an electron.
•It will eventually be possible to download into a computer all the memories and even the personality of a human individual.

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[Dead_Parrot]

1. I need to check this -

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