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Demographic Questions

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Sun, 2010-04-25 20:33
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weavermount weavermount's picture
Demographic Questions
So I'm hoping to put together some demographic data. Here is what I think I know, but it doesn't all fit 10 BF :global population of 8 billion with ~= 1 million in space. 0 AF :"Fewer than one in every eight survived the fall, and of those fewer still retained corporeal bodies" . So we have 1 billion earth-born egos. Many without bodies. pp36 10 AF : We are quoted a population of half a billion. I take this to mean half a billion morphs, as there is no mention of massive losses of infoguees. This implies that about half of all egos are infomorphs, mostly infoguees. Also we have a quote saying 40% of the population is on or around Mars. That's 200 million, leaving 300 million else where. Also Morph types are given as
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Hundreds of millions of people must make do with very basic splicers (p. 139), worker pods (p. 142), cases (p. 143), or synths (p. 143), while a few million are wealthy enough to have custom-designed morphs created for them, complete with all the augmentations they desire.
Does anyone read this differently or remember anything I missed?
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Sun, 2010-04-25 20:42
Sepherim Sepherim's picture
Re: Demographic Questions
Check this topic: http://www.eclipsephase.com/universal-population
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Sun, 2010-04-25 21:09
Decivre Decivre's picture
Re: Demographic Questions
Page 38 is where I get most of the demographic numbers, which are slightly more dire than the ones you give:
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Before the Fall, the solar system had a population of approximately eight billion, with all but five million of these people living on Earth. The Fall wiped out almost ninety-five percent of transhumanity, and today the population of the solar system is slightly less than half a billion, with almost all of these transhumans living off the Earth. The lifestyles of these people were almost unimaginable thirty years earlier—the vast majority are immortals living in sealed habitats on hostile alien planets or in sealed space colonies, the largest of which hold more than a million inhabitants and are many kilometers long.
According to this, survival was closer to one-in-sixteen or one-in-twenty, rather than one-in-eight. We're looking at a far smaller number, and only by about 10 AF did we achieve a population of about half a billion.
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