I like that nuance -- some things have collapsed into a singularity, some things have fragmented into shards. Which is which, and what forces determine that? Of course it was kind of sloppy of me to talk about reality fragmenting; it's easy to make grand pontifications and lose the important details.

The New Atlantis had a series on the death of facts -- I read the first article which I thought was really good but have not yet got around to reading the others. Makes me want to revisit it.