{"id":17689,"date":"2025-02-10T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/want-to-know-how-the-world-ends-try-this-wikipedia-page\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:37:56","slug":"want-to-know-how-the-world-ends-try-this-wikipedia-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/want-to-know-how-the-world-ends-try-this-wikipedia-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year of human history has a dedicated Wikipedia entry. But surf far enough into the future, and you\u2019ll find evaporating oceans, planetary collisions, and the ultimate apocalypse: the Big Slurp<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See more from our column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/internet-wormhole\">Internet wormhole<\/a>, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a \u2026 slurp? According to my favourite Wikipedia wormhole, that\u2019s just one of the many possible ways our universe could bite the bullet some 100 quindecillion (give or take a few septillion) years from now.<\/p>\n<p>To me, Wikipedia\u2019s seemingly innocuous<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_the_far_future\"> <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_the_far_future\">Timeline of the far future<\/a> page (along with its existentially harrowing cousin,<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe\">Ultimate fate of the universe<\/a>) is the perfect encapsulation of the internet\u2019s inbuilt dissonance: monolithic in meaning but oh-so pedestrian in its presentation. It offers a snapshot of mind-boggling scientific theory wrapped up in a boring, colour-coded spreadsheet, built and tended to by faceless back-end contributors who are probably goosing up Elon Musk\u2019s own Wikipedia page at the same time as they\u2019re casually cataloguing the theoretical extinction of the Y chromosome 5 million years from now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/feb\/11\/want-to-know-how-the-world-ends-try-this-wikipedia-page\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e1c4e784f482f079299604631e9e4a8d66ba5af7\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d6142d9122462804d84c1fe6f4a997e4\" title=\"Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page\" \/>Every year of human history has a dedicated Wikipedia entry. But surf far enough into the future, and you\u2019ll find evaporating oceans, planetary collisions, and the ultimate apocalypse: the Big Slurp<br \/>\nSee more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet<br \/>\nThis is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a \u2026 slurp? According to my favourite Wikipedia wormhole, that\u2019s just one of the many possible ways our universe could bite the bullet some 100 quindecillion (give or take a few septillion) years from now.<br \/>\nTo me, Wikipedia\u2019s seemingly innocuous Timeline of the far future page (along with its existentially harrowing cousin, Ultimate fate of the universe) is the perfect encapsulation of the internet\u2019s inbuilt dissonance: monolithic in meaning but oh-so pedestrian in its presentation. It offers a snapshot of mind-boggling scientific theory wrapped up in a boring, colour-coded spreadsheet, built and tended to by faceless back-end contributors who are probably goosing up Elon Musk\u2019s own Wikipedia page at the same time as they\u2019re casually cataloguing the theoretical extinction of the Y chromosome 5 million years from now. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year of human history has a dedicated Wikipedia entry. But surf far enough into the future, and you\u2019ll find evaporating oceans, planetary collisions, and the ultimate apocalypse: the Big Slurp See more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet This is the way the world ends: not &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/want-to-know-how-the-world-ends-try-this-wikipedia-page\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}