Our final destination is always the same
only our journeys remember our nameDigital journey, a breadcrumb fable
indexed, sampled, semantically stable
Swallowed by circuits, processed by silicon
Preserved by storage in a cloud of intercon
Transcribed, distributed, digital, immortal
Sorted by media, ubiquitously available
Our destination - where our carbon's replaced
by an avatar of texts, mails, blogs and trace
Our story is our journey, our destination
The Singularity.
8 comments:
You're speaking my geeky language here - I love this line "where our carbon's replaced
by an avatar of texts, mails, blogs and trace"
Very original. loved it.
Thanks!
I've been intrigued by the idea of a sort of evolution into a digital representation of ourselves based on a couple things:
1. having lost a couple people for which I still have IM logs, emails, etc
2. reading too much Cyberpunk - William Gibson, Neil Stephenson
3. The Singularity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Thought that it made for an interesting twist on our story, journey and destination.
Very real. Well said.
This one, gives the brain a good work. Interesting.
This was the most original one I've read! I can tell that somewhere along the way you've read SciFi too!
You have captured the new world of webbed relationships beautifully! A lively piece!
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