Comic #2786: 2013-01-02

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Panel 1
In developed countries, population grows logistically. It rises, slows, then levels.

Panel 2
This process of leveling out instead of rising exponentially has been historically coincident with the exponential rise in computing power.

Panel 3
Isn't that a bit… suspicious?
Computers haven't gotten faster, friends. There are secret people running them. 100 billion people.

Panel 4
Whenever you run a computer program, billions of missing humans make the calculations and then give them to your computer, which is in fact no faster than a UNIVAC.

Panel 5
The chips in your computer are just radios to send the data. Computation isn't following Moore's Law. It's following population growth.

Panel 6
Do you actually believe any of that?
I believe everything that sounds cool enough.

Fun Fact
Conspiracy theories are just fan theories about real life.