Thursday, May 10, 2012

Mechanized

Regarding machines
out shadowing man's shadow
They don't need to sleep
We do. They don't need to eat
We do. More than they need us

Regarding machines
Technologically advanced
species made by us
It is our own misfortune
Our price for acting like God

Regarding machines
Time to upgrade once again
Reboot before sleep

Regarding machines
Regarding machines, again
Regarding machines

Regarding machines
Glitches likely reoccur
Purposely planted
Seeds of automation. They
Remind us daily

Regarding machines
I dare not say another
word. For the fear that
Reassembly will transpire
Somehow…they can always hEAR

Mechanized
Neutering of man
Intellect
Artificially
Wiping clean

What man was
before man became
What man is

Charles Miller presented us with the challenge of the machine.  Head over to D'Verse to read the article and to check out the poetry that it helped spawn.  Meeting The Bar gets wired tonight.






15 comments:

  1. haha fear that they will hear...its getting close to being that bad you know....i dont know how far we are from sentient computers...and you are right they dont have our needs...kinda scary huh and soon enough we will figure out how to give them perpetual energy and then they will strike...smiles...

    It is our own misfortune
    Our price for acting like God

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  2. I read a book many, many years ago about computers and one that was watching us all and taking over everything, and the only thing they forgot about them was, all they had to do was unplug it... LOL but that is in the old days when computers were still being thought of as sci fi. Now I guess there will be computers soon that won't need to be plugged in anywhere. I feel in a few years time we will have bought about our own extinction at the hands of our far more intelligent creations..
    Fabulous write once again Fred!

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  3. You have definitely captured the relationship between humans and their machines. For better or worse, we cannot go back in time.

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  4. Nice insight on the mechanized man...the last three lines are superbly written ~

    Happy day to you ~

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  5. Yeah I agree with every word we are truly absurd. We give them more and more and more and then they will turn around and kick our butts becoming the dominant spieces or whatever on the planet. It is scary but stupid humans think they will always be in control.

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  6. 'Mechanized
    Neutering of man
    Intellect
    Artificially
    Wiping clean'

    That's cool Fred! Feeling vulnerable as Tom Cats would. Great write!

    Hank

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  7. Have you seen those Google glasses? You put them on and you're "connected". By the time they perfect them there will be people demanding an implant so they can have the appearance of being connected with their very bodies. They'll demand it, feel naked without it. Makes you think that theory that machines are the natural evolution of man may not be so farfetched.

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  8. Mechanized
    Neutering of man
    Intellect
    Artificially
    Wiping clean

    Ouch! Fiery write full of irony especially:

    I dare not say another
    word. For the fear that
    Reassembly will transpire
    Somehow…they can always hEAR

    Clearly posted on a computer, linked to the internet, where you interact with what you assume are people but could be programs. That Radio Lab episode I linked to talked about an expert on AI who fell in love with a program who he thought was a woman from Russia. He actually fell for another computer during his on-line dating. Fascinating.

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  9. ..Seeds of automation... sometimes they grow into scary trees and hard to get them under control..nice...and the last stanza is killer...great

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  10. Hiya Fred,
    So true, and so scary.
    I bought a pot plant today and looked for the care instructions. Not a sign of them. Only a weird one inch square pattern of dots. Turned out that needed to be read [?] by my mobile phone, which would then read out the instructions. I have no mobile phone. This confrontation between vegetative reality and unseen invasive networking really did my head in.

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  11. This is so impressive. I am full of admiration for what you have done here. Suggestively machine-like.

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  12. You see this is what makes it so darned hard about technology. Do they rule us or we them. The desire to be gods, indeed, may be the answer that confirms hubris, but when that numinous dimension or even the possibility of it is dimmed or neutralized, then we forget even that that desire exists or impelled us into this world we made. Or can we forget that it exists? Will the word or concept itself of godness disappear from the vocabulary of humanness? I wonder whether it's part of the background that makes us human, beyond the basic physical and neurological facts that make us possible. Your poems always inspire to think thru things that I might not otherwise have dealt with recently or ever.

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  13. There is a trending view that states, if a machine can do the job better than we can, is it even a job we need to be doing? If we each tended our own gardens, raised our own livestock, wrote our own stories, and actually spoke and lived WITH our neighbors...rather than the machines...I think the world would be a much better place...maybe a little smaller...but I personally don't see that as a bad thing. Awesome pen as always!!!

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  14. i glitches are not a probability but a absolute when technologies are involved!!

    do you really think they neuter us.


    Sonnet 40

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  15. Interesting how we will soon become slaves to our machines and gadget. The way we faithfully rely on them for so many things, acquire cases to protect them from damage, charge them whenever they prompt. The glitches remind us of how much we depend on them. We don't keep as much in our heads and notebooks in this digital age, so maybe we might be getting duller in some ways.

    Like this one very much, it's something that I think about every now and then, this piece contains a lot of interesting points to think over.

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