On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:11:03 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
The future that Silverberg was portraying in his
"The World Inside" was just totally different that the
reality of our low middle income childbirth rates
and our old "generations" ideas that it just does
not compare.
Big one, child bearing ages now are quite concerned
with finances and time constraints.
Silverbergs view in that book eliminated those and also
had a special kick of religious duty.
The book explicitly has people usually marrying at 12, and
becoming parents by 14.
Given we're talking science fiction you shouldn't assume that we're
talking Earth years. Those numbers would be totally appropriate for
settlers on Mars for instance.
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