My favourite of the more unusual theories attached to 2012 is the Timewave Zero system, the brainchild of the late Terence McKenna. He believed "time" had more active properties — novelty and habit — and created a computer program of a time-scale wave that pictured the ebb and flow of "novelty" through history and into the future. Quite coincidentally, the wave peaked — or ended — in 2012. At that point, McKenna posited, artificial intelligence or time travel may occur.
So on December 21, 2012, I may head down to the Glenelg foreshore again and wait to catch another "wave" — in the form of McKenna's singularity. If time escapes its linear constraints, spirals into infinity or turns around on itself to touch the past, I might just get to see Don Dunstan in full swing again, megaphone in hand. Groovy.
Duska Sulicich is an Age editor.
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