Oliver Mckeithan Poet Free verse

Luddite

In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
From In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans

Luddite

Robots that clean floors
and pools
Robots that assist with
surgery
Robots that search for
explosives
Robots in all areas of
manufacturing
Robots unpiloted as
drones

Self-driving cars
Self-regulating thermostats
Self-guiding weapons
Self-regulating houses

It won’t take until the year 5555
The time is already here
What will we have left to do
A machine can do it all for us
I am rapidly becoming a Luddite

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Gershon Wolf January 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM So dehumanizing. And what for? All that AI won't make life any better. On the contrary, by taking away our independence and initiative, AI will render life one big shade of gray. I just don't get why people become so excited about machines. ~ gw Oliver Mckeithan January 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM I dont either. We do have to make some concessions to automation but we have gone way too far. Glad I have lived most of my life.