Re: [OM] Is the end of silver film anywhere in sight?

[dreammoose]

John Malthus was able to make all the same mistakes and come to the same 
erroneous conclusions without the aid of computer or electronic calculator.
'Malthusian' also sounds better than any descriptive adjective or phrase 
I can think of from 'Club of Rome'.
Moose

Joe Gwinn wrote:

> The flaw was far deeper than that.  The model assumed that all the natural 
> resources available were known, and were fixed with no substitution possible, 
> and further postulated an exponentially-growing rate of consumption.  You don't 
> need a computer to predict the outcome -- you quickly run out of something, and 
> everthing falls down, with food riots and revolutions.  Doing this on a 
> computer was purely for public relations.  A hand calculator is sufficient, but 
> not as impressive.

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