{"id":575,"date":"2012-06-11T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:07:03","slug":"nightmare-vision-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/06\/nightmare-vision-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare Vision of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are having fewer babies &#8211; not enough in the west to maintain the population. The population will fall by two thirds in Japan by the end of the century.<br \/>\nFollow this through, so that one day the entire world population will consist of two old ladies sitting on a porch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are having fewer babies &#8211; not enough in the west to maintain the population. The population will fall by two thirds in Japan by the end of the century. Follow this through, so that one day the entire world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/06\/nightmare-vision-of-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-9h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2240,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2015\/09\/a-ripple-on-nothing\/","url_meta":{"origin":575,"position":0},"title":"A ripple in nothing","author":"taxicle","date":"September 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There are too many people. 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