OBSOLESCENCE: Reflections on Superannuated Sentience 

	If poetry becomes obsolete
	and gadgets exist for every conceit
	will any futures be worth contemplating?

	Must we say "seig heil" to some
	mutant corporatist world order?

	Will digital programs replace our dreams
	as mere humans become
	superannuated cyber-beings?

	Eventually will computers control so much
	that ordinary humans become virtual dust?

	Living in techno-obsolescence
	as analog trash among vast info-spheres
	will non-conformists be regarded as anomalies
	compacted into irrelevant directories?

	At this moment
	in the quantum blips of microchips
	the answers are being calculated. 


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some thoughts about possible post-human futures
KEYWORDS: homo sapien superannuation, human obsolescence, digital corporatism

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1999 in Kihei, Maui / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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