Terry Pratchett, one of the most brilliant authors writing today (or any other day, for that matter), proposed that “Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.” (Guards! Guards!) I’d like to take his theory a few steps deeper into logical absurdity. At some point in the mid-1990s, the Internet amassed so much “knowledge” that it collapsed in upon itself, forming a supermassive black hole that can both read and write (mostly in broken lolcat English).

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