Hi, Del!!! How much are three deuces, anyway?
I looked at the transhumanism site, and some of it is interesting, some of it scary (to me, at least), and some of it seems very like the things in the future Father Terrence is always talking about. Personally, I would just like to stay healthy as long as possible, and live as long as possible without any heroic measures. We may be the last generation which dies at what has seemed like a "normal" age recently, somewhere in our seventies and eighties.
Anyway, I found a poem there I really liked!
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
Richard Brautigan
1967 |
