QUESTION OF THE WEEK: The Future

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About six minutes in length, the following video, with background music from the soundtrack of The Last of the Mohicans, presents some interesting numbers-crunching:



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QUESTION OF THE WEEK (in two parts): (1) Are the facts and the projections in the video accurate? (2) Do you have any additional facts and/or projections?