<div> This essay diagnoses a silent ontological rupture in contemporary culture: the death of metaphor not as a stylistic decline but as a fundamental transformation of language itself. Metaphors have not vanished—they have been consumed by their own literality, petrifying into operational instructions and infrastructural components of the technosphere. "The cloud" is no longer a poetic image but a server array; "concrete jungles" are not figurative descriptions but algorithmically optimized urban landscapes; "time is money" has become a kilowatt-hour meter in cryptocurrency mining farms. This collapse occurred instantaneously—like a switch flipping—when language reached a tipping point of absurdity: the moment poetic formulations (e.g., "the electron is inexhaustible") became firmware for quantum computers. The result is phenomenological purity: word and phenomenon have fused, eliminating subtext and interpretive ambiguity. We now inhabit Superreality—a regime where language functions with surgical precision yet has lost its spellbinding capacity. Paradoxically, this loss yields a strange freedom: if we once feared metaphors distorted reality, we now confront reality distorting us. The essay argues that this transition marks not cultural decay but an evolutionary rupture demanding new cognitive tools for navigating a world where poetry has become infrastructure and ambiguity has been replaced by binary exactitude. </div>