Ant Farm
As I understand the semantic web, which is somewhere between not very well and not at all, it will allow machines, or machine language, to describe human language. I have a slightly better understanding of human language, or at least the English portion of it, which is used to describe the world, but is not the world. Languages are tools, or perhaps entities that we use, or that use us, to understand realities, or as McKenna had it to decide whether:
We are descended from the ant-people who came out of the urine of the sky god when he got out of his canoe at the seventh waterfall to relieve himself or we are derivatives of the Big Bang—a moment when the whole universe sprang from nothing and for no reason at all.
My assumption is that that the semantic web is going to be important because it’s going to tell new stories; stories that sooner or later we’ll all understand.
