Is the world coming to an end? Hollywood would like us to think so.

I went to go see a movie at Savoy 16 on Saturday night, and in the 20 minutes before the film, I saw not one but two previews relating to the theory that the world will end in 2012.

Several years ago, people were hooked on television. Remember all those studies linking TV viewing to bad grades and attitudes back long long ago? Or how parents used to say that watching too much television hurts your eyes? Those times seem so far away now that the era of speedy computers and wireless networks have arrived.