Your comment got me curious, so I made it into a spreadsheet. There are 265 papers currently. If you're curious, there's a reason it feels overwhelming. Here

Your comment got me curious, so I made it into a spreadsheet. There are 265 papers currently. If you're curious, there's a reason it feels overwhelming. Here's a plot of the age of the papers relative to now. Its a bit of a wall/tsunami. https://i.imgur.com/Om7udZR.png https://i.imgur.com/Om7udZR.png Edit: Because of the shock like character I also postulate several hypotheses: - It will rapidly expand like a fireball, consuming all of the "air" of possible nearby topics. - Possible secondary: Ignition of other topics as possible fuel to extend the publishing "burn." - Possible secondary: Vacuum implosion when all nearby topic fuel is expended. - Cause significant destruction (existing wealth, businesses, market segments, ect...) - Cause many humans to effectively "reflect" due to its impenetrability, effectively rendering those humans permanently downhill as consumers. - Possible secondary: Further shocks as the shock wave bends or reflects off of "currently impenetrable" obstructions (topics that do not immediately turn into fuel). - Cause significant secondary (mostly unrelated) growth in topics impeded by the current suffocating fuel environment (like an old growth forest that has become choked with debris and oppresses all growth)