Horne takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the end of days, reveling, like any good pessimist, in the sheer misery of it all. His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive, with catastrophies ranging from the “biblically stressed” to the “universally doomed.” All the usual suspects are here (global warming, economic collapse, nuclear weapons, terrorism), as well as the surprising (vacuum metastability, magnetic pole reversal, male infertility), the far-fetched (rise of the machines, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), and the downright questionable. I can hardly see “the brain,” “hackers,” or “the moon” bringing the universe to an end. But perhaps I have too much of the optimist in me.
- Holiday Gift Guide: For the Inveterate Pessimist, NewYorker.com, December 17, 2010.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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