apocalypse
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This is the future of AI: a gradual adoption process that works through its problems and integrates into society without triggering economic apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"It's like the zombie apocalypse sometimes and you can see they are completely away with it," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
These odd phenomena convinced ancient cultures that eclipses were signs of the apocalypse -- or messages from the gods.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Against the tangerine blush of the afternoon sun, it looked like the apocalypse had already touched down in Virginia.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
But, far more often, I found that apocalypses brought out people’s creativity and determination.
From Slate ● May 14, 2025
"America is an infant," a French survivor says, "but here, we survived many apocalypses."
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023
The game has no guns, no Marios, no apocalypses.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Burns and his co-showrunner, Dorothy Fortenberry, argue that film and TV have their own version of the same problem: Climate apocalypses create immediate drama and character-level tension.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
Daniel and Revelation," is of special interest: "The more theoretical or theological messages of the apocalypses it is evidently impossible for us to accept in any literal way as a message for our day.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard la Rue Swain
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