A question.

who could say, you'd need a time machine but the potential for more people to have lived in the future than in the past is greater
 
That's some question.

Given the growth rates of humanity, ignoring the caveat of sustainability, I'd guess there are a lot more to come. It would only take a century of a global population of several billion to overtake the accumilated hitoric population to that date.
 
No. I think there are far more to come than have lived already. The only prevention to that is a global catastophy (including overpopulation) or significantly increased life expectancy which results in reduced childbirth. But I think that even if either of those occur we will just keep breeding because it is one of the strongest insticts in Man.
 
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^^ As above, the world population is doubling every 20 or 50 years (can't remember which, too drunk :D).
 
Too many YOLO SWAGGERS running around these days eating cheese and stuff, this one time I looked up at the sky and it was purple and I was like how come my shoe laces are undone so then bread fell from my palms and I somehow woke up lying on the moon with goldilocks and 8 millions bears.
 
I imagine a lot more will come, more than we could even imagine. If in the next century we continue to develop spaceflight and eventually colonization, the numbers to come are huge.
 
There was a BBC page on this not too long ago. It let you calculate what number human you are since time began. I was quite suprised at how low it was for me. I would find it but I'm on my phone and I'm cold at the train station so no.
 
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