The recent supposed Mayan Doomsday prophecy may have been a new concept to today's readers, but the genre has been around for a long time.  It Ends In Fire is an intriguing anthology containing short stories by classic authors.
Click the link in the above sentence, then from there click the story titles to preview the story. Such as The Scarlet Plague. Click the author's name such as Jack London, to discover and preview others of their stories in the database, and scroll down to see other anthologies containing one or more of their stories, such as Soldier's Song containing Jack London's story 'An Old Soldier's Story' and 'The Red Game of War.'
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The woman touched a switch and the music was silent.
“I suppose I must see who it is”, she thought, and set her chair in motion. The chair, like the music, was worked by machinery and it rolled her to the other side of the room where the bell still rang importunately.
“Who is it?” she called. Her voice was irritable, for she had been interrupted often since the music began. She knew several thousand people; in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously....
from -The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster, 1909
That seems so facebook or twitter doesn't it?
Yet it was written in 1909 !!!
---from The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.