Web-bots Predict Doom in 2012

Reports are flooding into the world of apocalyptic theory that "web-bots" have now predicted the end of the world. These bots are similar to the "spiders" or web crawlers that scan the internet for keywords to index sites for engines.

While a wide range of global catastrophes and earth-shattering cataclysms have been foretold by prophets and seers of almost every major religion, as well as the most accurate calendars known to man, is it possible that a computer program could predict such a thing? Is the modern-day Nostradamus really a software program?

This particular version of this web crawler software was designed a decade ago to forecast future events by tapping in to the collective "wisdom of the masses." In its original use, the program predicted the performance of the stock market. Proponents credit the program with foreseeing the September 11 terrorist attacks and the 2004 tsunami.

According to reports from The Telegraph, the bots have officially predicted the end of the world on the very same day of which the Mayan calendar has forewarned for thousands of years, December 21, 2012. Polar shift or is the predicted culprit, according to the bots.

The geomagnetic reversal phenomenon is one of the prevailing theories among 2012 philosophies, as the shifting of the poles occurs every few thousand years and can be caused by a variety of likely occurrences such as polar flares or asteroid impact. Though polar shift connotes a complete pole reversal, even a modest movement of the earth's poles could cause devastating environmental change that may negate human existence.

As the affects of global warming and climate change become more widely recognized as reality rather than radical conspiracy theory, validity of these concerns continues to mount. People are finally paying attention to the possibility that the delicate balance of our ecosystem and the future of humanity is being tipped toward the precipice of mass extinction.

Perhaps the sheer amount of data from blogs, websites and online discussions surrounding these possibilities has drawn the attention and resulting prediction from the bots. Movies including Roland Emmerich's new film, 2012, which is one of the most hyped films of the year, have ignited a revival of world's end predictions ranging from solar flares to the dawn of a new ice age.

Whether you subscribe to the biblical theory of rapture, or the Mayan and ancient pagan theories of planetary alignment, you now have a robotically enhanced intelligence to bolster your fears. The bot offers no suggestions on how to prepare or prevent our inevitable demise, but my suggestion is just to live life as fully as possible. If everything goes at once, no one will be around to lament the losses.

References:
Tom Chivers, "Web-bot Project makes Prophesy of 2012 Apocalypse," The Telegraph UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6227357/Web-bot-project-makes-prophecy-of-2012-apocalypse.html

Ani, "World's Expiry Date: 21 December, 2012," Track in News
http://trak.in/news/worlds-expiry-date-21-december-2012/7858/