In her July 2 letter to Palo Alto Weekly, Pamela Kimball suggested that Stanford appears to be "aiming for a clinical, teaching, research and development city." This touches on a fundamental question that generally seems to go begging: Namely, where will Stanford developments stand in say 10 to 20 years time?

One quite plausible scenario in line with such aims can be represented by a simple extrapolation of past growth data, and the implications are rather sobering.