Bruce: Is this a proper DTE device?
Anya: Yeah, but I do not understand its link protocols.
Carlos: And where is the end instrument?
Devani: None of you are looking in the right place: all poetry takes place in the imagination. Forget about clock signals.
Bruce: But this poem is not RS-232 or FS-1037C compliant –
Devani: It doesn't need to be.


Terminal Data


Today's indisputable "facts"
will later be called myths

The certainties of this moment
will surely be eclipsed

As long as humans exist
the hunger for knowledge
will grow

& striving to feed
our appetites for discovery
perhaps we'll someday see

greater amounts of data
don't create
greater capacities to perceive

the connections flowing
flowering, fusing
through creation
linking all beings

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