Spreading the news: the end is nigh!
Peak Oil as end of civilization is a hot meme.  Its spread illustrates how ideas propagate though our society. “Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing“, Tim Bostrom, Technology Review (May/June 2008) — This is a long and subtle analysis of the Fermi Paradox. One section of the essay discusses end-time scenarios: The other possibility is that the Great …