Some years ago, I did some work on whether air traffic could predict population growth and job growth.

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That is because a computer can be used to help predict which documents within a large population of information are legally required to be produced to requesting parties during litigation.

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This led some forecasters to predict that 100m people, half Indonesia's population, would be living in poverty and short of food.

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This benefit is small, which is exactly what I would predict for a preventive measure in a low-risk population.

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This, some predict, will eventually lead to a more relaxed policy towards population-control, even in the big cities.

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