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Cogito Ergo Zero Sum - NaPoWriMo 9 2024 Official DUP Stomp the Prompt Comp 9)
Turn your thinking over to the machines
let them do the thinking
for you and me
let them work
to set you free
Said the snake oil seller
through a megaphone
as they jangled an iron collar
to enslave all of every colour
Trust the machines they can do no wrong
but they know no right either
and ignorantly follow coding
focussed on productivity
blind to their insensitivity
A machine's hard work will set you free
to starve and worry in poverty
and they only create more problems
too late to stop the megabyte
should've maybe been a luddite?
Turn your thinking over to the machines
let them do the thinking
for you and me
let them work
to set you free
Or so they said.
let them do the thinking
for you and me
let them work
to set you free
Said the snake oil seller
through a megaphone
as they jangled an iron collar
to enslave all of every colour
Trust the machines they can do no wrong
but they know no right either
and ignorantly follow coding
focussed on productivity
blind to their insensitivity
A machine's hard work will set you free
to starve and worry in poverty
and they only create more problems
too late to stop the megabyte
should've maybe been a luddite?
Turn your thinking over to the machines
let them do the thinking
for you and me
let them work
to set you free
Or so they said.
Published 9th Apr 2024
Author's Note
Based on the NaPoWriMo Prompt of “ 9. Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Write a poem about a machine that developed its own consciousness.”
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of course, everything was slower before the internet and AI, but now we’re so busy hurrying into nowhere I don’t know why
but I expect people felt the same during the industrial revolution
but I expect people felt the same during the industrial revolution
10th Apr 2024 8:31pm
