This Terence McKenna quote has some element in it of what I have been after lately with all my techno-jargonning:

The starships of the future, in other words the vehicles of the future, which will explore 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 in to the constructs of the imagination.

His point seems to have something to do with visible language and virtual reality, in other words, concepts of reality which are made out of language extruded through computers into forms perceptible to the human nervous system.

I’m not actually interested - at all - in the Flight from the Real™ that someone accused me of being in the comments. On the contrary, I’m currently trying to get jobs taking care of goats and building things with my hands. I’ve found no greater peace and satisfaction in my short life than in living firmly in this the real world. But imagination and heart are everything to me. They are the glue by which my experience of the real world is mediated. Without them, “I” would be nothing. All I am, at this point, is a loose record of imaginings and strivings as a human being - and not to mention failings.

Computers to me are nothing but a symbol of the imagination writ large upon the plane of public consciousness. A computer becomes a (not the) positive image of what a human being or group of human beings could do. Computer and software become great levelers in a world governed by media and technology.

Anyone who becomes a computer user immediately becomes a writer, a poet, an artist, an aesthetician, a philosopher, a seeker, a searcher. As such, shouldn’t we be seeking Beauty? Shouldn’t we be seeking Truth? Shouldn’t we be seeking the Good Life? I certainly feel that way. And to me the Good Life consists of reality and imagination inter-twining in beautiful harmonious expressions that serve the individual human who acts as co-creator of reality while balancing the needs and wants of the group, the society, the culture at large. Computers and technology aren’t about to simply go away. They shouldn’t. They’re awesome. They’ve become the centerpiece of my life: but its not the computer, it’s what they’ve allowed me to do as a human being. That, I guess you could say, is what I’m so interested in exploring in this series…