Foerster's Formula Predicted Infinite Population

In 1960, Austrian-American scientist Heinz von Foerster and colleagues P. M. Mora and L. W. Amiot published a paper in Science predicting that the world's population would reach infinity on Friday, November 13, 2026. Their equation fitted historical population data available in 1958 and pushed the total toward a mathematical singularity. They chose the date partly because November 13 was von Foerster's birthday, making the predicted doomsday his 115th.

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