There is a vantage point at the end of time and it’s called deja vu. From this omniscient vantage point, you survey at once all the happenings which are disguised by time’s slow march. This French phrase, deja vu, which translates to ‘already seen’, has become our best way of describing that very peculiar phenomena.

The experience of deja vu can sometimes leave us with an eerie and otherworldly feeling. But the phrase deja vu itself deserves its place in global...