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Twenty years ago, the world feared that a technological doomsday was nigh. It wasn't, but Y2K had a lot of prescient things to say about how we interact with tech.
In an unpublished manuscript, Newton made a reference to the year 2060, which in 2004 was falsely reported by mainstream media as a date for the end of the world. Newton was actually predicting a date before which the world would definitely not end, in order to calm people's fears about the apocalypse.
27 Δεκ 2019 · ‘Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting’: An Oral History of Y2K. Once upon a time, we all thought the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. Two decades after the panic of the century, it’s...
For the past 2,000 years, people have been predicting a date for the end of the world and/or Christ's return (Wikipedia has a very long list of predictions). In the 1840s, the Millerites sold their Earthly possessions ahead of William Miller's chosen date of Oct. 22, 1844.
Apocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime. [1] . This belief is usually accompanied by the idea that civilization will soon come to a tumultuous end due to some sort of catastrophic global event. [1][2]
14 Δεκ 2021 · The human era is over, and Earth reinvents itself once again, as it has done many times over the past four and a half billion years. Is this end inevitable? Will runaway capitalism push the climate past a point of redemption? Should we as humans resign ourselves to the demise of our species?
30 Δεκ 2019 · If computers interpreted the “00” in 2000 as 1900, this could mean headaches ranging from wildly erroneous mortgage calculations to, some speculated, large-scale blackouts and infrastructure...
