Walter Bright wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Walter Bright wrote: >>> Sean Kelly wrote: >>>> I'd bet it takes longer. Even with incredible knowledge, they'd >>>> have to build the technology from scratch, starting with improvised >>>> tools. >>> >>> Huh, 99% of the people will be full time engaged just in food >>> production. >> >> Well at some point it was said that a McDuff device provides food. > > McDuff is right. Trying to get enough food to eat has been the bane of > human existence for essentially our entire existence. The current > obesity epidemic is a startling anomaly.
Aye... except, of course, for all the people starving to death. I get the sneaking suspicion that it's less a problem of too much food and more of too much of the food in too few places. We seemingly have the same problem with money, too. :P -- Daniel