GoKawiil1960 'doomsday' population prediction by physicist Heinz von Foerster falls on Nov 13, 2026
Physicist Heinz von Foerster published a 1960 paper in Science projecting that human population growth would reach an infinite, unsustainable point on November 13, 2026. The forecast assumed that growth trends observed up to that time would continue unchanged, leading him to predict humanity would be 'squeezed to death' rather than starve. In practice, population growth slowed after the baby boom ended shortly after his paper appeared, and the prediction never materialized.