Longtime Verge fans who’ve followed the founders from Engadget to their new home at Vox Media are well aware of our preoccupation with doomsday — it’s been a running gag for a decade, akin to a secret handshake between members of a club. For years, every robot post was greeted with an “I, for one, welcome our new overlords” comment from readers, and a wink-and-a-nod of appreciation from the staff. Hell, our very first big launch feature in 2011 was a story about doomsday bunker weirdos, followed by a five-part series on doomsday culture a year later.
But that was before the Doomsday Clock ticked even closer to midnight. It was before Brexit and Wilders and Le Pen. It was before the 2016 US election and before the first two weeks of a...
via The Verge
