Y@ Speak: It's the end of the world as we know it

The Maya never predicted that 2012 would be the Year of the Cigar Box Guitar. They missed the most important story. The end of the world, which ought to be in a couple of hours, is not this year's crucial event.

(CNN) -- It's the end of the world as we know it. And yet the world feels fine. Friday was supposed to be the day life on Earth ceased to exist. The predicted apocalypse -- which spawned a disaster movie "2012," a TV show tracking "Doomsday Preppers

It was supposed to be a party to live for the moment and celebrate the apocalyptic 21/12/2012 but an 'End of the World' party in California turned deadly - with a man shot dead and two others injured. Felipe Jason Moreno, 20, was shot and killed at the

French police arrested two men who had gas masks and machetes in their car as they approached a mountain rumoured to be one of the few places where people will survive when the world supposedly ends on Friday.

Today is the last day on the Mayan calendar, which, according to some, means the world is going to end. This seems about as likely to occur as any economic forecast. And so in preparation, economists on Twitter have been