Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.

Elph machines.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And guess what? I've come across a few more tapes of Terrence McKenna Talks that I, well, I don't think you've heard before.

Well, once I came across these tapes and started listening to them, I discovered the sound quality was so poor that

it probably is the reason they were never released to the public. But today, thanks to the

open source audacity software, even an amateur like me can make it presentable. So here we are.

Now, as we listen to what Terence has to say, it may be more productive for you to

reimagine what he saw as the major change to our world within the next 18 years, but instead

listen to it in a new context. In 1995, Terence McKenna was postulating that this change would come on December 22nd, 2012.

And his reasons for this, at the time at least, seemed to be within the realm of possibility.

Well, 12 years have passed since 2012, and I guess that it would be fair to say that in the 24 years since

Terrence has died, there actually has been a significant change in the world.

But what has taken place during those 24 years will be seen as unimportant in respect to what is being predicted about the current revolution in artificial intelligence and synthetic biology.

You've probably heard that old saying that says, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

So be warned.

Lately, I've been spending the majority of my time using and also learning about

artificial intelligence, AI. That's my new hammer.

And yes, I realize that most people think this whole AI thing is simply more hype coming out of

Silicon Valley. Maybe so, but I think not. Fortunately, for an old guy like me, we aren't going to have to wait another

18 years to find out. My sources tell me that revolutionary changes will be upon us in three

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