[ WP ] A future civilisation has finally learned everything there is to know , how do they react

“ There has to be more. There has to be ”. He was desperate now. He could barely keep his voice from shaking. Even as he said it, he knew he was deceiving himself.Of course there wasn ’ t. This was it. 
 
 The world watched him falter on the news. All twelve billion people sat around screens as his every movement was broadcast around the world. All sat enraptured and every one had the same thought at once. This was it. 
 
 The projections had all been wrong. Knowledge didn ’ t grow exponentially. The world and the universe was finite. There were walls everywhere, hard walls that could not be broken. As he faltered on the news that evening, he knew these limits had been reached. 
 
 He was silent now. The world held its breath. As one, they realised there was nothing left to say. Every response was accounted for, every probability totted up. Nothing could be original ever again. He sat facing the globe, trying to think of something to say. Something. Anything. But the words would not come. 
 
 People around the world started to turn off the screens and sit, calmly and quietly, in silence. 
 Karen got up from the sofa, went upstairs and ran herself a bath. She got in it with the toaster. 
 Jamie took a precisely calculated dose, knowing exactly what it would do to his body. Li favoured fire. 
 
 The authorities watched the population plummet. For a number of months it kept falling as people could not bear the silence. There was no curiosity any more, no joy and no light. People struggled until they could not any more The authorities knew this would happen.It was calculated. They knew the reasons and did not judge. This was it. 
 
 Eventually it stabilized. Those that were left knew where their friends, brothers, mothers, children, co-workers, husbands and lovers had gone. They knew what had happened to their mind and body. And people were left alone in the half-empty world, left to continue reacting against planned events. They were left on the shore, watching the sea before them and aware of all that it contained. They just had to carry on. They had to survive. They knew what had to be done
