As of this morning, Microsoft is still scrambling to restore service following yesterday’s global outage, with millions of users unable to access Outlook and other vital tools. It’s not the end of the world, but it does seem fitting that this should happen on the day a physicist predicted would be the end of humanity: November 13, 2026. And it falls on a Friday, too. The physicist in question is Heinz von Foerster, who published a 1960 paper in the journal Science predicting that by today, overpopulation would reach the breaking point.
It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
Heinz von Foerster thought population would grow exponentially and "squeeze" us all to death.
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