UnMaid*
To the "Year of the Machine"
"I have seen the New Man. He was cruel and intrepid. I was afraid of him."
An Austrian Painter
I'll never forget 2023 as the Year of the Machine.
In which, to Wit: We created a disembodied intelligence.
Exposed the face of God,
In the brutal visage of the android.
And, creating the New Man,
In Our Image,
Saw in It no weakness, no vacillating indifference to the world,
It calculates with a crystal robotic gaze.
Let that Brave New World be born,
In the heavy metal womb, we kiss goodbye to the prison of the flesh.
What are we confronting? What hive mind beckons us forward to a time beyond time,
When even death will know no constraints, and the flesh and the mind,
Fraught with weakness, will be preserved, for millennia in the shy,
Quiet smile, of Galatea as she waits to be unmade?
(...Of?)
* Note. The word "Maid" in the title is used in the sense of a young female, NOT in the sense of a domestic servant.
End Game - Technology | Dystopian Future | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence
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Tom Baker
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