drmstream[writing]

More peo­ple, liv­ing longer, con­sum­ing more resources, increas­ing com­pe­ti­tion, dri­ves inno­va­tion. I look back over my life­time and believe that the sin­gle biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion from 150 mil­lion to 300 mil­lion and the global pop­u­la­tion from about 3 bil­lion to 7 bil­lion. One major fac­tor has been the increase in our lifes­pan. It’s a remark­able tech­no­log­i­cal accomplishment.

Note too how the trend has lev­eled off: war and dis­ease don’t have the same destruc­tive impact that they have had in the past.