"They said they had carried food and water for only one month and they had been in the sea for two months after the ship enginestalled, " police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody told the Reuters news agency.
Billionaire Peter Thiel, for example, argues that despite spectacular advances in computer-related fields, technological progress has actually stalled because the internal combustion engine still rules our highways, the cancer death rate has barely changed since 1971, and the top speed at which people can travel has ceased to improve.