This is not to say that utopian and dystopian prediction has ceased - far from it; but the social changes now imagined for the future, or for societies that bear a strong resemblance to our own, are not remotely constructive.
But at least eight credit unions have so far ceased trading this year, and this comes on top of the six that collapsed in 2012.
"In my own country," she said, "hostilities have not ceased in the far north," and "to the west, communal violence" has flared in the days before she left Myanmar.
Five credit unions have so far ceased trading this year, and this comes on top of the six that collapsed in 2012 and the seven that went under in 2011.
Though the market has rebounded since bottoming out at the turn of the millennium (when government subsidies for construction ceased), prices remain far below those in the rest of Europe.
During this period, the department ceased to grow, producing far fewer doctorates than the Adams department.
The Soul has nothing to dread, though no doubt the involuntary has some power here too: fear therefore must cease, except so far as it is purely monitory.
The first step on this road is to cease dignifying the far right with the word conservative.
"Although the particular bands I followed have ceased to exist, there is far more interaction between Jewish and Arab musicians today than when I began this research," he says.
The question is not if, but how often, such zero-day infections will occur in the future when Microsoft has ceased to support XP. Indeed, far from fading as a target for attack, as its share of the user base declines with age, XP is likely to be singled out by cyber-criminals for special attention precisely because of its fragile underpinnings and lack of official support.
In fact, Eurovision ceased to be European-only as far back as 1973, when Israel first entered.
