endism

Outbreaks of what the computer scientist John Seely Brown calls "endism" have been rife in discussions about communications technology since the time of Plato, who opined that writing would destroy memory.

Mark Zuckerberg says the email's end is nigh. LOL | John Naughton 2011

In fact, ever since the web went mainstream in 1993 there has been a constant stream of what computer scientist John Seely Brown calls "endism" – assertions that some new technology presages the termination of some revered practice, not to mention the end of civilisation as we know it.

Good journalism will thrive, whatever the format 2010

In The Social Life of Information, a book published early this year, John Seely Brown, long the director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and Paul Duguid, of the University of California at Berkeley, call this style of prediction "endism," as in "the end of the world as we know it."

Internet Illusions Fallows, James 2000

a lovely post by Nick Bilton discussing the way what John Seely Brown called 'endism' keeps cropping up in discussions of media ecology.

Memex 1.1 2009

The problem with endism is that it's intrinsically simplistic.

Good journalism will thrive, whatever the format 2010

She read a good deal of that kind of literature which may be defined as specialism popularised; writing which addresses itself to educated, but not strictly studious, persons, and which forms the reservoir of conversation for society above the sphere of turf and west-endism.

New Grub Street 2003

"The problem with endism is that it's intrinsically simplistic," he writes.

editorsweblog 2010

"The problem with endism is that it's intrinsically simplistic," he writes.

Editors Weblog 2010

"The problem with endism is that it's intrinsically simplistic," he writes.

Editors Weblog 2010

"The problem with endism is that it's intrinsically simplistic," he writes.

Editors Weblog 2010