Wednesday 7 May 2008

Last One Out, Turn Off The Lights


A frightening statistic: At the current birthrate, the population of Japan will fall by two thirds within a century. That's a demographic implosion that no society has ever survived.

It's a good job that the Japanese are responding to this crisis by relying more and more on robots. It won't solve a thing, but at least someone–or something will inherit the place.

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