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The missing link is now extinct.
Contributed by
softerware
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Saturday, 30th August 2014 @ 11:32:27 PM in AEST
Topic:
scifi
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She reads her email; he answers his phone; dining together, two people ---alone.
Hunting and pecking like all those around us; on little machines that define and renown us!
Much like the salesmen and peddlers of yore; we “talk” to the world through a darkened screen door.
Call me old fashioned, I miss conversation! The smells, and the sights that assault my sensations!
Face to face nuances never so subtle; The rituals of speaking deserve their rebuttal!
Like breathing in deeply the scent of your hair. Saying much less to your face than I dare!
Dancing together and playing guitar; reading you sonnets from countries afar;
The smell of the leather; the feel of the binding; we’re losing our senses, and nobody’s minding!
Three cheers for those gestures that cannot be canned; like nodding your head, or shaking your hand!
Pressing the flesh; tipping my hat; lowering my glasses; (no symbols for that)!
Tapity tap, let’s sing the chorus; heads down, ignoring the others before us!
This is the speak of a new generation. In their own time, this IS conversation!
(If it’s true what we do is what we become; perhaps in the future we’ll speak through our thumbs!)
We need a disclaimer! “Computers are stealthy! Exposure to humans may prove unhealthy!”
I’m all for computers doing our tasks, but where are the humans? Well, since you ask:
Tellers are costly, computers are not; and ATMs don’t take vacations a lot!
Scanners are faster and don’t need the perks, like checkers and baggers and grocery clerks!
Ushers no longer find us our row; we just lock the doors between every show!
If we can’t make it fit on that little black screen; we dare not take space to say what we mean!
Today we use symbols and infobits; next we may text you in dashes and dits!
But in terms of efficiency, so I am told, the most logical language is binary code;
Program computers? Nah, think again: computers are teaching us how to be THEM!
Easier to bring us to THEIR way of thinking; we’re more adept at this type of linking.
Do you recall where this all began? Before we all knew a PC from a LAN?
Pacman was more than a game meant for kicks; it made us efficient at using joysticks.
Intended in time to replace steering wheels; but they proved too responsive, and ended the deal.
Precurser to texting? Enter Atari! Thumbs at the ready! Shoot down the quarry!
Social experiments built to beguile; Wall Street’s a genius at clinical trials!
Our NAVI computers will one day decide if we are in any condition to drive.
Telephone messages, and mail combined, will be on your TV, completely aligned;
with everything your old computer could do, and just like your car, it will talk to you too!
And what of our privacy? Cookies will find us; by digital breadcrumbs we’re trailing behind us.
Or maybe we’ll all be transmitting blips, from childhood injections of microchips.
You can slam all your doors and turn out the lights! But how do you hide from a satellite?
If we’re addicted, we’re not alone! 9/10s of the planet owns a cell phone!
Silence the leash some hold tight in their fist; and they panic as if they had ceased to exist!
No one to hear us! The tether is lost! Imagine the horror: alone with our thoughts!
(If we knew for certain our phones caused brain cancer; how many rings would it take till we’d answer?)
Maybe we’ll find this is only a trend; when we tire of the chatter with virtual friends!
And what of our couple out dining tonight? The waitress spoke more than BOTH did all night!
Tomorrow your server may well be replaced; by a shiny steel cart with a slot for a face!
It worked for gas stations, (and we felt like fools, getting out of our cars to pump our own fuel)!
They saved a fortune, and we wondered why, humanity left without saying good-bye!
They tell me one day computers will free us; to do all we do…they’ll have to BE us!
My generation won’t live to see; a machine that looks, walks, and talks just like me!
But robotic bionics are catching up fast! So enjoy your humanity as long as it lasts!
Truth or delusion? Time will define.
Is this the future you had in mind?
“Mankind was honored posthumously; the digitized eulogy read fittingly:
“The last of their kind who could fix their own fences; and lived to extinction on humanly senses!”
Interviews held with machines in attendance, blamed man’s demise on passive dependence.
Film at eleven: Man’s rule completed—Carbon-based history records deleted!
Copyright ©
softerware
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2014-08-30 23:32:27]
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Re: The missing link is now extinct.
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by Former_Member on
Sunday, 31st August 2014 @ 12:09:47 AM AEST
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Holy cow,
Sometimes you see what appears to be
a long poem and think,
Do I want to take the time...
But this one was so darn easy
A real quick read I feel lucky
to have read indeed.
Chair oh chair I don't care
how you look in the end
It's the person, the friend
The loved one
Wonderful how this one
poem reads like a happy
letter you get
I got a new desk in a new building
It's a raised desk and I'm punching
the up down button, underneath
I see a power chord unplugged
Musical chairs now defunct
on Facebook
Very well done SW!
Peace! |
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Re: The missing link is now extinct.
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by hauntedscorp on
Sunday, 7th December 2014 @ 12:34:54 PM AEST
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Daaaamn !!! I am envious of how full of truth and logic this is! I feel like you could've kept it up for days...Great flow, great message, GREAT STUFF!!!
~Scorp |
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Re: The missing link is now extinct.
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by Former_Member on
Monday, 26th January 2015 @ 09:29:34 PM AEST
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Towards the end there I started hearing the Terminator music. This is excellent.
I did actually see something on Facebook where a man was having a conversation and interacting with an android(?) robot, whatever and she looked like a real woman...very very close. Very lifelike, so they're already here or right around the corner.
We are living the future. Remember Pong? That was my first experience with video games. Now they're too advanced for little ol' me.
Your last line made me cringe. Sorta scary, isn't it?
Signed,
Sir Timotheus
(the man who has lost count of how many cell phones he has owned) |
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Re: The missing link is now extinct.
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by Pogivic on
Sunday, 29th March 2015 @ 08:39:46 PM AEST
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| I remember my first computer and all the things it couldn't do. My first cell phone and digital camera and all the things they couldn't do. Now I have the latest in gadgetry and I wonder what they can't do as compared to the next generation of gadgets, say ten years hence? The younger generation are keeping up just fine but I am slowing down in learning the total features and how they work. Just recently I was visiting a lady friend who had a two year old daughter. I went to check my cell phone and the child was so happy because she thought I was going to take her picture. In my youth we knew that telephones don't take pictures, cameras do. Well I enjoyed reading this. Kind of wish I had wrote it.. |
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