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Honey, we shrunk the kids: population fall - The Intelligence from The Economist

Honey, we shrunk the kids: population fall - The Intelligence from The Economist

Update: 2025-09-16
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Falling fertility makes a global decline in population inevitable. That will change the shape and make up of societies. But it may not make us poorer. Are large language models really woke? And reading is on the wane – and why that matters. 


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Honey, we shrunk the kids: population fall - The Intelligence from The Economist

Honey, we shrunk the kids: population fall - The Intelligence from The Economist