The End Is Just Beginning
People have a special fascination for endings.in 1989, the economist Francis Fukuyamawrote the much-publicized essay“The Endof History?”, foreshadowing many books andfilms. These included The End of Work, The End of Oil, TheEnd of Nature, The End of the Nation State, The End of Money,The End of Food, The End of Religion, The End of Reason andThe End of Time. There seems to be no end to the end!Online bookseller Amazon lists more than 6,000 booktitles that include the words“the end of...”