Shekhar Natarajan

And sometimes the opposite.

Well, think of how magical that technology is.

that we could like use the technology of writing to create something that when you open it, it's true, right?

Because the minute you're reading a great piece of science fiction, you know,

When you're reading it, it's true.

It's viscerally true.

You're there.

Maybe it's a psychotechnology that's whispering something from the future, pulling the present forward to meet it.

We never know.

The creativity of the person who wrote it, maybe that was being whispered retroactively from the future.

Maybe it's beckoning.

Some T-axis kind of thing.

Some crazy time loop.

I don't know.

I mean, I think already there are technologies that border on, like, metaphysical or, like, that are miraculous.

And I think writing is one of them, like, when deployed in the right way.

I always wanted the holodeck from Star Trek.

You know, when you go and you can choose your risk and everything.

And it's like VR, but much better than VR.

It's like VR without the nausea and the isolation.