A 1960 ‘Doomsday’ prediction set November 13, 2026, for a population collapse

News from Science revisits a 1960 paper by physicist Heinz von Foerster and two colleagues. As The New York Times described the prediction at the time, the human population would approach infinity and annihilate itself on or around November 13, 2026. News from Science says there were about 8 billion people in October 2026, not hundreds of billions.