ABSTRACT
In 1960, in the journal Science, von Foerster et al. published a striking discovery. They showed that between ce 1 and 1958, the world’s population (N) dynamics can be described in an extremely accurate way, with an astonishingly simple equation:2
Nt = C t0 − t , (1)
where Nt is the world population at time t, and C and t0 are constants, with t0 corresponding with an absolute limit (“singularity” point) at which N would become infinite.
