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Archaeology: News About 300 million US Population hits 700 Billion

In what scientists are calling a “Dangerous Trend”, News items about the US Population growth curve hitting 300 Million quickly hit the 700 Billion mark within 24 hours of its release. “Certain types of growth are managable,” kjh said, “But this.. this is logrythmic, exponential, doubly type growth, just too big for the human mind to grasp…” Information population experts quickly renewed their cries for a slash and burn response. “If we dont nip this in the bud, we wont even be able to tell if what were reading is true or not… ever!” But Newse Corpe Inc. called this response immature and unreasoning. “This response is immature and unreasoning,” said Malati Iuyui of Newse Corpe Inc. , proponents of social networking technology. “…its a basic, self organizing system, like wikipedia. The strong ideas survive, the weak will die.” “Thats fine for wikipedia entries, but that doesnt make the information correct,” a rival of Newse Corpe Inc. said today. “…It just makes it stronger.” “The stong survive,” was the response from Newse Corpe Inc. , “But the dude abides.” “We dont care,” a competitor responded. “The problem with this is that, while biologically we have seen the strong survive, it doesnt make the dude abide, it doesnt make them right! And rightness is a long term proposition,” said the Competitor. “I dont know what theyre talking about,” said Jimmy Treewaith, 7, of Moscow, Indiana. James Tiptree Jr concurs. “If we dont do something now to stop it, we wont be able to talk about anything else.” she (no relation to sci fi author) said today. See more on our followup on this story in the June issue of Science, 1969.