The doomsday machines; Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world would end in 2060. He may have been /wrong about the causes, but mankind could still be at risk, writes Michael Hanlon.(News)

From: The Independent on Saturday (South Africa) | Date: July 14, 2007 | Copyright information

THE end came, not with a bang, but with a whimper. Hardly anyone saw it coming, and those who did were dismissed as either nutters or Luddites, enemies of the new technological nirvana which, since a series of breakthroughs in the late 2010s, seemed to promise a glittering new dawn for humanity.

For centuries, mankind had fantasised about the end of the world - when it would come and what form it would take.

The Hindus and Buddhists took a decidedly sanguine, ...

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