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The world will end on 21 December 2012 |
The world will end on 21 December 2012, claims "web-bot" technology that has pushed apocalyptic prophecy into the internet age. According to web's conspiracy theorists,
the bots accurately predicted the September 11 attacks and the 2004 Boxing Day
tsunami, and now they believe that a cataclysm of some sort will devastate the
planet on 21 December, 2012. Developed in the 1990s to predict stock market movements,
the software is similar to the "spiders" that search engines use to index web
pages. The bots crawl through relevant web pages, noting keywords and examining
the text around them. The theory is that this gives an insight into the "wisdom
of crowds", as the thoughts of thousands of people are aggregated, reports The
Telegraph. George Ure, the project's "co-mind", says that his system predicted
a "world-changing event" in the 60 to 90 days after June 2001, and on 11 September
2001 terrorist attacks happened. Despite the vagueness of this prediction, many
believed it to be genuine. Now, the latest prediction is that 21 December 2012
signals the end of the world, possibly through a "polar shift" - when the polarity
of the Earth's magnetic field is reversed. Believers claim that as well as the
bots, the 2012 apocalypse is predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar, the Book
of Revelations, and the Chinese text I Ching. |
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