WikiSysop at 17:59, 23 September 2022

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Jess at 16:13, 21 September 2022

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+This is partly a reprise of my attempt to cover FUTURE DEMOGRAPHICS in that disastrous first talk at Serious Coffee, but this time with a focus on the hot-button issue of IMMIGRATION.
+Some questions from that first talk (did we answer any of them?) are:
+* How mobile will people be in 20 years?
+* Which people?
+* What will be the effects of such mobility?
+* Where will most of them live in 20 years?
+* Where will Canadian immigrants come from?  [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2017028-eng.htm Here's some Census data.] -- [https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time Compare the USA data.]
+* Where will Canadian emigrants (if any) go?
+* How many people can Canada hold?
+* What would be the ideal number of Canadians?
+* How many people can the Earth hold?
+* What would be the ''ideal'' number of humans on Earth?
+* What will be the number of ''robots'' per person?
+* What will the ''age'' distribution look like in 20 years?
+* How old can we ''get''?
+* How old do you ''want'' to get?
+* Will we just upload into Virtual Reality?
+Some possible sources of ideas and information on this subject:
+* ''The Limits to Growth'' (classic 1972 book whose gloomy predictions have been largely borne out)
+* ''The Population Bomb'' by Paul &amp; Anne Ehrlich in 1968, predicting catastrophes that have '''not''' happened.
+* The ''Gapminder World'' website at ''http:''www.gapminder.org'' which explains why they haven't &amp; probably won't.  (See especially the videos entitled "How Not to be Ignorant" and "DON'T PANIC: The Facts About Population".  You should also buy the book, "''Factfulness''".)
+'''Philip''': from a comment in the New York Times: "''The migration crisis is the population bomb going off.''"
+'''Jess''':  That's exactly the sort of myth propagation Rosling warns against -- especially from journalists, whose job it is to make the news sound more dramatic than it is.
+===MINUTES:===
+IIRC, 8 people showed up for this meeting.
+We probably have the Board Room again for 2019, thanks to Keith!
+Anne Toby responded positively to my invitation to come speak on human genetic manipulation sometime this year.  I will let everyone know when she picks a date; I presume we can accommodate her any time!
+The January meeting may have lower attendance; we will just have a brainstorming session again.
+Tentative topic for February: "''Passion and Purpose'' -- what drives us to do what?"
+Another candidate topic:  "''Privileging Ethics'' -- can enlightenment recapture government?"
+It was suggested that some '''TED talks''' are as good as an OFC session.  I agree, so I started a list on the [[OFC EXTRAS]] page, which see.  (Please add your favourites!)

OFC Meeting 12 - Revision history

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