The Future of Society
I. The Age of AI Is upon Us
The Age of AI is upon us
_all the livelong day.
The Age of AI wants to clone us.
_We cannot get away.
Computers are now all around us
_Ever since we’re born,
If they want to, they’ll confound us
_Till Gabriel blows his horn.
II. The Age of the Drone
Deadly unmanned vehicles
_bringing death and pain.
Deadly in the battlefields
_surrounding the Ukraine.
St. John wrote of a plague of locusts
_bearing iron breastplates
Loud wings, and tails of scorpions
_instigating worse fates.
III. New Cave Dwellers
Mayhem in the public schoolyard.
_Mayhem in Townhall.
Mayhem at the office building.
_Mayhem at the mall.
At home we are the new cave dwellers
_with Wi-Fi internet.
We’ll order pizza, earn degrees,
_Paint walls, and feel all set.
LTC Roy E. Peterson, US Army Military Intelligence and Russian Foreign Area Officer (Retired) has published more than 7,300 poems in 102 of his 125 books. He has been an Army Attaché in Moscow, Commander of INF Portal Monitoring in Votkinsk, first US Foreign Commercial Officer in Vladivostok, Russia and Regional Manager in the Russian Far East for IBM. He holds a BA, Hardin-Simmons University (Political Science); MA, University of Arizona (Political Science); MA, University of Southern California (Int. Relations) and MBA University of Phoenix. He taught at the University of Arizona, Western New Mexico University, University of Maryland, Travel University and the University of Phoenix.
I really enjoyed this sharp poem in three sections, Roy. You are very observant concerning the dangers we face moving forward as a society dependent in artificial intelligence, intrusive technology and sheer laziness in being willing to isolate… Simply because we can. And I especially like this poem ‘s three-part structure. Thank you for this!