The UN reports that Asia has a total population of 4.78 billion but the UN overestimates China’s population by 16 million people. Asia is about 60% of global population. India and China make up about 60% of Asia’s population. The UN Population division has forecasted far high populations and fertility for India and China than …
Canada’s population reached 41.0 million on March 31, 2024. Poland’s national statistics agency reports 37.7 million people. The UN numbers for Canada and Poland are off by 2-3 million for each country. The UN overestimates Poland and underestimates Canada. It took 26 years to go from 30 to 40 million. Canada reached 40.0 million on …
Nextbigfuture reader, Scott Baker, has gathered excellent information about the state of artificial womb development. Scott did this in response to my articles describing the massive global depopulation crisis. Scott has found videos and information about were tests over one year ago of biobags to help premature sheep. These are early forms of devices which …
Joe Rogan reviewed the video statement of the now dead Boeing Whistleblower. The whistleblower was continuing to testify and report on Boeing’s corrupt quality process. He and a team had found 300 defects on a Boeing plane. His boss then went out with two inspectors and found only 50 defects. The whistleblower asked one of …
Nextbigfuture has tried to simplify the reason why global population decline is not something to be ignored. While the world was fine when we had 4 billion people in 1974, we will be deep into disaster if the world population declines to 4 billion in 2080-2120. Fertile women would drop to 5% of the population …
AI is quickly changing everything. Sam Altman , CEO of OpenAI and creator of ChatGPT, just told us what to expect with AI and AGI. Here we look at the most important things that Sam Altman says in his own words during his second two hour interview with Lex Fridman. Sam defines his goals for …
There is a difference between a world population that is 4 billion and strongly growing versus 4 billion and shrinking. When I write about global population collapse there are many people who will say that they lived in a world with 4 billion people and it was fine. This is like saying they were in …
Here are the key points of a Lancet study on global fertility. Global Fertility rates will continue to collapse even if all countries adopt the current best pro-baby policies (childcare subsidies, extended parental leave, insurance coverage expansion for infertility treatment). Future fertility rates were would drop to a global TFR (total fertility rate) of 1·83 …
Two weeks ago the Korean group presented new room temperature superconductivity research and this week the Chinese research group published new research on LK99 type superconductors. Are we at a breakthrough? What has been done in this new research? China has published new research on improved copper and sulfur codoped material with a stronger meissner …
Chinese researchers have published a new non-peer reviewed paper on their sulfur copper doped led apatite room temperature superconductor. They have increased the Meissner effect signal. Supplemental material from the China researchers. This describes the precise work done show they did not make measurement errors. Background Context In mid-2023, the Original Korean researchers discovered the …
Cerebras Systems has doubled its existing world record of fastest AI chip with the introduction of the Wafer Scale Engine 3. The WSE-3 delivers twice the performance of the previous record-holder, the Cerebras WSE-2, at the same power draw and for the same price. Purpose built for training the industry’s largest AI models, the 5nm-based, …