While 2600 is a bit extreme, the beauty of being a liberal clown is you can get rich being a liberal clown while never living long enough to see your liberal clown predictions collapse in an otherwise humiliating ash heap.
Hawking took it a step further. He could not jump out of a liberal clown car unless someone ejected him.
He sounds a lot like that Idiot Paul Ehrlich, author of “the Population Bomb.” He said the earth would be out of room in the year 2000...that every person on earth would only have one square foot of space! What a moron. Now, in 2018, we could fit the whole world’s population, allotting one square foot, in my Pennsylvania county of Lycoming, with room left over! None of his genius acolytes ever did the math. What a fraud...the man behind the curtain.