The BBC has nailed down something I've vaguely wondered since reading in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 that the dead outnumbered the living 30-to-1. Now, the ratio is more like 12-to-1! Some 83.2 billion have lived since the beginning of the species, and about 7 billion of them (us) are alive now.
The weight of (recent) history, cont.
The weight of (recent) history, cont.
The weight of (recent) history, cont.
The BBC has nailed down something I've vaguely wondered since reading in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 that the dead outnumbered the living 30-to-1. Now, the ratio is more like 12-to-1! Some 83.2 billion have lived since the beginning of the species, and about 7 billion of them (us) are alive now.