A multinational information technology firm had launched a system of enormous satellites and nearly planet-sized orbital telescopes designed to gather every bit of data from the entire known universe. It had been turned on the night before, and the result was a backlog of information so infinite that it began to shut down computers around the world, in itself an unprecedented calamity.
It was all too much. Everything that had occurred over the previous 13.8 billion years, every detail since the instant of the Big Bang, would eventually crowd out the present universe. Nothing would be the same. Life itself would soon have no room to function.
When Rock turned on his television just before daybreak, he was surprised to see that reports of this end of time were not on every channel.
Bit by bit, he began to understand that nothing was out of order. He knew that every media outlet would have no choice but to broadcast nonstop news of the most significant cosmologic event since the start of everything, particularly in light of its manmade origin.
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