Several thinkers had predicted the end of history, Marx in the nineteenth century, most recently Francis Fukuyama on the occasion of the fall of the Soviet empire. Yet history is very much necessary to understand the emergence of a global society driven by information technology and communication as well as rapid transport networks. Yet history and its rival, the philosophy, no longer able to analyze the tensions resulting from the birth of this new information society and cannot respond individually to the challenges posed by globalization. Clio and Athena must recognize the need for collaboration with other human sciences today to explore the intricacies of humanity evolving.