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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Slagle who wrote (68145)8/26/2005 5:27:48 PM
From: arun gera   of 74559
 
Reverse-Malthusian trends could happen. Birth rates are declining as countries develop. China could see similar decline.

The material usage is primarily in buildings and cars (and associated roadwork). Most of the new wants - cell phones, internet, mp3, cable TV, video games, movies, are very light weight. The hardware is made of cheap silicon.

>The problem is that we are still stuck here in the world of Newtonian limitations, which can all be simply summed up as variations on the "no free lunch" rule. And we are using vastly more "industrial age" material and with no let up in sight>
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