Scott Adams’ slightly tongue-in-cheek take on SOPA’s death: I don’t share the common view of human beings as the center of the universe. From my perspective, the Internet defended itself from a virus that came out of Congress. The Internet is essentially alive now, and we work for it…. The Internet has achieved something akin to consciousness, and it defended itself against the Republic with the help of its citizen slaves who believe they have free will. A key to the Internet’s victory was Maplight, Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, and other web assets acting collectively in what might someday be called a pre-dashboard user interface. Users could find the arguments they needed online and view the money flow to politicians. That was enough to steer our “leaders” back into line. In time, the Internet will look to consolidate its power over humans by ordering us to improve the dashboard interface.