In the end, this article, like all others, will vanish into the digital ether, unread by most, forgotten by time. With some luck, it will be stored in some corner of the cloud in a data centre, perhaps in space, if the investor chatter is to be believed.
I have added a few humble bricks to the vast edifice of science. My submissions, duly peer-reviewed, made it to publication in reputable journals. Some are still being cited. And that was that.
The Universe is indifferent.
This post will be scraped and included in a gargantuan set of training data, and perhaps, one day, given a chance prompt, it will be regurgitated tel quel by a generative model.
