The best part about
junk e-mail is that when we delete it, it doesn’t end up in a landfill, or have
to be recycled in one fashion or another. It shoots off into space.
Or does it? What if,
as the really smart physicists say,
no energy is ever lost, just redistributed in one form or another? What then?
Are we going to
discover a giant, planet-sized ball of e-waste floating in space—right outside
our atmosphere?
Is that giant ball
of propa-sales-ganda-pitch-special-e-gook going to reach critical mass, coalesce,
and come crashing back to earth to bury us all in an electronic maelstrom-hurricane-e-flood?
Wiping out all thought and reason?
Oh, wait. We already
have that. We call it television news.
