MIT Predicts Civilization Will End By 2040!
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, Granger and AntMan revisit a decades-old prediction that’s resurfacing online — an MIT study from 1972 claiming society could collapse by 2040. The two dig into what that actually means, what the researchers got right and wrong, and how changing population trends might be shaping the future faster than we realize.
From the idea of socialism as a global “solution” to declining birth rates and the rise of technology, the conversation moves from history to the present day. Granger shares stories from his travels, including a talk with a Venezuelan Uber driver, as they unpack why grand theories about saving the world always seem to ignore human nature.
But the heart of the episode isn’t fear — it’s faith. Granger points back to Scripture, reminding listeners that no matter what predictions come true, God’s plan doesn’t change. Whether the world lasts another fifteen years or a thousand, our mission remains the same: to live for Christ and share His gospel in the time we’re given.
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| 0:00.0 | interesting topic today something we've actually aunt man and i have been wanting to discuss and |
| 0:19.1 | dig into and then we've had other things that we needed to cover because of things going on in the world. |
| 0:24.5 | And so today we're kind of circling back. |
| 0:26.4 | And so this spurred from a series of lectures and videos that we came across of MIT predicting the collapse, total collapse of society by the |
| 0:44.5 | year 2040. |
| 0:45.4 | This study came out in 1972. |
| 0:48.5 | So, Hey, man, and I, you and I started kind of diving into this and thinking a couple, twofold. |
| 0:55.6 | One, what does this mean for society and when you see and the reason i mean you see stuff like this all the time but |
| 1:01.2 | when you see something like mit you know these guys are pretty smart you know i have i have a couple |
| 1:07.1 | at our church both have them graduated at m. Really? Their sons at MIT now. |
| 1:12.1 | Brilliant, you know. |
| 1:13.6 | They don't mess around. |
| 1:14.9 | That's Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.1 | So MIT predicts through computer modeling, which in 1972, |
| 1:26.5 | before either one of us were born. |
| 1:28.6 | Yeah. Computers had about as much computing power as a tea kettle in |
| 1:34.1 | 1972. So this is actually a really big deal. You can imagine the guys in the, in the rooms |
| 1:39.7 | just full of the servers everywhere. And one computer was the size of this room. Your one computer was the size of this room. |
| 1:44.4 | Your one computer was in a room. |
| 1:45.9 | And the screen was, you know, like a window on an airplane. |
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