5th Apr '10
2:37pm
The starships of the future exploring the high frontier of the unknown will be syntactical — the engineers of the future will be poets. This is what virtual reality holds out to us — the possibility of walking into the constructs of the imagination.

Terence McKenna, Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality.

As computers become more able to accept our commands, we gain an ability to use language to shape our habitat. Here, McKenna talks about this grammatical future: in this future, when we can make our intentions known to our powerful machines, our words will build the world we inhabit.