Apocalypse

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence (AI) will kill the traditional software industry, saying it will instead let companies build complete, ready-to-use applications for entire industries that need no training and can be switched on without lengthy installations. Speaking at Oracle AI World here, Ellison, the company's executive chairman and chief technology officer, rejected talk of a "SaaS apocalypse", in which businesses would use AI to build their own applications instead of buying software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. "I don't think that's quite true. I think companies will continue to build applications, but they will be quite different because of AI. They will be much, much better," he noted. Business software has so far never been fully finished for any one industry, Ellison said. A hospital, bank or hotel using even the best commercial products has had to build its own extensions or connect applications from other vendors. "Beca

Such an event could cause people to lose internet access for months or even years, rendering satellites and power lines useless

Real apocalypse may not be a single catastrophic event but a slow series of events that feedback with each other to remake a planet, no longer liveable to the majority of life