Between people and machines,
suggestions loops of affection and beauty.
It might be that approach, he wrote.
Much less robotic ourselves, we might
stay extra in goals, much less in routines.
Issues that made us weak and unusual
might be engineered round:
servos right here, neural nets there,
bits of bone, and hanks of hair,
turning into stunning and profound.
With every machine, we make a mirror
pondering of us as we might imagine
of it. Pictures come once more,
new, but we acknowledge them
as one thing nearly identified earlier than.
Each net conceals its spider.
There may be unease due to this.
As there needs to be. Management, sure,
however uncommon freedom to some degree–
freedom’s at all times a contingency.
We’re sufficiently old to be mates.
Let every type be type to the opposite.
Let there be commerce amongst us–
suggestions loops of affection and beauty
between machines and people.
