(2004-03-16) Sterling Sxsw

Cory Doctorow's summary of Bruce Sterling's SXSW routine. The only things that change population are birth and death and immigration rates and catastrophe. With bad SARS or Avian Flu we might get a disease that makes 30-year-olds sneeze for a couple days and kill off hundreds of millions of people in their 70s. 19000 people died of heat in Europe: almost all old people. (QuietCare monitors room temperature.)