Hyperphores have qualities our species is (at present) largely incapable of noticing, let alone enacting — but ancient peoples were our polar compliment in this respect. We do not yet understand the nature of the linguistic vehicles they produced. Part of the reason for this is that they contained both extra dimensionality and additional domains of action, transmission, and effect. Many of those domains are explicitly nonordinary.

The implications of this stagger the entire range of the possibilities of what we call ‘technology’.