Ouroboros -- the fate of the modern way of life

Ouroboros is the mythical snake that eats its own tail.  

In this case, it represents how modernity ends.  It eats itself.  

Specifically, the technologies the modern system accelerated, are in the process of obsoleting it.  

Eating its value, industry by industry.  Job by job.

The end of this way of life is likely to be traumatic.  

Here's more detail on this.