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by xenophonf 1881 days ago
Much more likely to be a reference to Brunner's classic work of dystopian fiction, which postulates that the 2010 population of Earth, projected to be around 7 billion people, could all stand shoulder to shoulder on a single island the size of Zanzibar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar

It's not the kind of literary allusion I'd want to make, if I were a global multinational like Google/Alphabet, but there it is.