What is an ending?

I tend to avoid memes but one of them I came across recently has started me thinking. The idea is to blog the last sentence of your thesis. Actually doing this is not a problem â?? even though I am not sure how interesting it is to read.

Discarding the technology entails a limited, regulated use but will fail to recognise the full potential of disruptive technologies as an agent of change within the participatory democracy.

The problem is: what is an ending? How should a thesis end? What is the purpose of the end? The purpose of the conclusion is to bring the work to an end and to (hopefully) provide an answer to the question which was posed somewhere in the beginning. But what is the meaning of the last sentence and what should it include?

Obviously I realise that there always must be a last sentence. But now that I have begun to think about the role of the final sentence it has begun to bug me. Now I will have to try to figure out what the role of these last words areâ?¦

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