Abstract :
I ran across one of those the-end-is-near cartoons. A scruffy person holds a sign that says "The World Will End in 2000-except the "2000" is crossed out and amended to "2012." The many dire predictions about cyberwar feel a lot like that. The word has shown up frequently on magazine newsstands this summer-but, my editor reminds me, it was also on the cover of Time back in August 1995.
