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It suggests that the Internet Age is now about to end, with a mass extinction of dot-coms as sweeping and complete as the one of reptiles at the end of the Jurassic.
FORBES: Opportunity Knocking
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ABSTRACT:A REPORTER AT LARGE about the sixth mass extinction.
NEWYORKER: The Sixth Extinction?
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But, for those of a nervous disposition, the tying of an ancient greenhouse warming to an ancient mass extinction might suggest lessons for the future.
ECONOMIST: A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs�� domination
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But we are the only species to have defined a geological period by our activity something usually performed by major glaciations, mass extinction and the colossal impact of objects from outer space, like the one that defines the upper boundary of the Cretaceous.
FORBES: On The Anthropocene Age
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In truth, agreement on the cause of the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous (when not only the dinosaurs, but also a host of other species died) has never been as cut and dried among palaeontologists as it may have appeared to the public.
ECONOMIST: Mass extinctions