<story><title>All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)</title><url>http://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>We are not only being colonized by machines, we are becoming machines, and gladly. We are already acting like and being treated like idiots by our technology. In the car it is turn by turn navigation, on foot it is stumbling with our phones in our faces, for music it is auto-tuned, formulaic pop songs, for dance it is the robotic pop-and-lock dubstep moves that amaze us...we defend our heads with noise-canceling headphones the size of earmuffs, are interrupted every moment by smartwatches...we bumble from one mediated moment to the next, always alone, always accompanied by no one--just the glow of a screen or a hum, a talisman. We&amp;#x27;re not sane without checking our notifications, need entertainment...can&amp;#x27;t stand not watching something, can&amp;#x27;t stand dead space, can&amp;#x27;t stand our own thoughts, can&amp;#x27;t stand our own minds.&lt;p&gt;Please take my mind over, AI, we constantly beg. Put us out of our misery and upload us to the digital nirvana.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;yea I know hackernews ain&amp;#x27;t exactly the right place to blah that out there, but couldn&amp;#x27;t. stop. --karma</text></comment>
<story><title>All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)</title><url>http://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  I like to think (and
  the sooner the better!)
  of a cybernetic meadow
  where mammals and computers
  live together in mutually
  programming harmony
  like pure water
  touching clear sky.

  I like to think
  (right now, please!)
  of a cybernetic forest
  filled with pines and electronics
  where deer stroll peacefully
  past computers
  as if they were flowers
  with spinning blossoms.

  I like to think
  (it has to be!)
  of a cybernetic ecology
  where we are free of our labors
  and joined back to nature,
  returned to our mammal
  brothers and sisters,
  and all watched over
  by machines of loving grace.

    -- Richard Brautigen&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>