Terence McKenna lays out Novelty theory, his claim that the universe runs on a built-in drive toward newness rather than entropy, and that this rhythm can be graphed across time. He traces the idea back to 1970s experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera, where he began studying the King Wen sequence of the I Ching as a map of cyclical change. From that structure he builds the timewave, a fractal waveform he says tracks surges and lulls of novelty through 25,000 years of history, with major flux points lining up against real events. McKenna argues the wave point to an asymptote, a moment when novelty runs away with itself, calculated to land on December 22, 2012. The talk, drawn from the show Light of the 3rd Millennium, is illustrated with psychedelic art from artists like Alex Grey and Mark Henson rather than diagrams, and scored with music by Murcof. McKenna's own voice carries the argument, moving from ontology to eschatology as he explains why he thinks culture itself functions as an operating system running on borrowed, and expiring, code.