Boys and Girls in Space - and other things

i cant see an entire generation deciding not to have children. if the
first one did, then after a few years everyone would realise that the
population was decreasing extreamly fast. as soon as that happen,
everyone would get to thinking that if they had children, they would
be able to take over. the next thing you have is a major population
boom.

the only way a entire generation would decide not to have children,
is if somehow some disease ran rapant though it and caused everyone
to turn suisidal.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Omar E. Vega"
>
> Hi John,
>
> Nice fantasy!
>
> However, without kids the first world won't survive one generation.
>
> Sorry to turn down your dream, but without kids the so called 1rst
> world won't be there anymore, and today's poors will be in charge.
>
> No androids, golems or magic is needed to realize something as
> simple as that.
>
> Omar Vega
>
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "ANTIcarrot"
> wrote:
> >
> > The following is a somewhat tongue in cheek future-history that
> covers a few
> > recent topics:
> >
> > After a couple of hundred years of gender wars (woman's
> revolution, man's
> > revolution, second woman's revolution, etc) large numbers of men
> and women
> > in the western world are heartily sick of each other. In the late
> 21st
> > centaury this causes a crash in First World population, which in
> turn causes
> > a sudden rise in personal wealth from inheritance. This paves the
> way for
> > the introduction of 'terminator style' personal androids, since
> only large
> > numbers of rich people could afford them. Once the luxury market
> has paid
> > off the initial R&D costs, the basic technology was used
elsewhere
> and
> > revolutionised the economy and manufacturing industries - which
> culminate in
> > Stanford Torus style space colonies like New Giza. Though few
would
> > considder marrying one, a significant proportion of young people
> think
> > androids make a viable alternative for boyfriend or girlfriend.
> The first
> > world consists of America, western Europe, and Japan.
> >
> > The second world on the other hand keeps having children.
Androids
> remain a
> > luxury item there, and though they make many of the parts, they
> have yet to
> > develop their own OS or hack the heavily encrypted western OS
that
> make the
> > androids 'come alive'. They are starting to experience the same
> problems
> > western culture did in the early 21st centaury, including stalled
> economic
> > growth, and are lead by India and China.
> >
> > -New Giza setting history
> >
> > A major story theme being that change, good or bad, drives
society
> forwards.
> > Trying to hark back to the past means you just end up going round
> in
> > circles. Ask NASA where that gets you.
> >
> > John
> >
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