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Binary Addiction

We humans are the gods of the computer age. We have mastered the use of ones and zeros. Some argue we have created artificial intelligence. But is it possible that ones and zeros have replaced our intelligence with servitude? 

I see
Faces glued to a screen
Trying to decipher all the data seen
People no longer talk
People no longer walk
I don't know when this got its start
Cell phones are now a new body part 

I see
Lights flashing
Buzzers dashing
Images blazing
Eyes glazing
Our cars tell us where to drive
And when we will arrive

It is a mystery to me
How an app is all people want to see
We are slowly dissolving into cyber space
Rarely looking up to see a human face
Free thinking is dying
Muscles are atrophying 
I think I have found 
People are not smarter, but dumbing down
Keyboard courage, slinging hate from afar
Hiding behind an avatar

We suffer from a terrible affliction
It's called binary addiction
So I see on many a blank face
The fate of the human race

Cyber world: one
Humans: zero

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10/3/18

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Date: 10/6/2018 8:37:00 PM
Wow Timothy. Brilliant! A definite FAVE for me.
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Timothy Mcguire
Date: 10/6/2018 10:51:00 PM
Thank you for everything

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