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SciFi author Ian Banks 's culture series explores a future civilization where people is potentially immortal but in that society it happens that lots of people lives 150 / 200 or 300 years an then they choose self termination.
I think this migth be some confusion between Mr Alan Kaye (http://people.forbes.com/profile/alan-kaye/51664) and Alan Kay of SmallTalk & Object Oriented fame.
Hi , I am Argentinian. Some savers who sued the banks had their money back but not due interests (my personal case). IMHO the French commenter is right , US recepted lots more imigrants and way more technicaly skilled ones (Tesla is a great example of turn-of-centrury ideal inmigrant ,he was an electronics guru and workaholic). I think that failure of importing/training enough technicians was far more important factor causing the "stop and go" development of my homeland than the disastrous political cycle. Also an early comercial success in the first wave of globalization set the stage for too high expectations.Turn-of-century Argentina had the same chance to achieve superpower status as Sudafrica or Australia. The future of my country is not grim we are a young vibrant country wih lots of hackers (and nobody want to blast us with nuclear weapons).