THINK OF WHAT RELIGION, & AGRICULTURE BESTOWED ON US,

WE REAPED WHAT’S SOWED , AND SINCE, HAD MULTIPLIED TO SIZE, WE COULD NOT CONTROL.

OUR STORY TURNED TO FAKE NEWS !

THEN WE HAD IMAGINED THAT, THEY WERE FOR OUR SOLE USE; SO, WE APPLIED THEM. AND NEGLECTED THEIR NEEDS.

THEY GAVE US DISEASES, BUT THE PLANTS SAVED US; THEY KNEW THEIR SECRETS, AS WE HAD AGAIN IMAGINED.

THEN AS QUICK AS WE HAD DISCOVERED, WE CUT THEM , SLIZED THEM, AND BEGAN TO EXPOSE THEIR SPACE. AND COVERED THOSE SURFACES WITH GRASS, TARMAC, & CONCRETE

WE DUG THE EARTH THE TREES HAVE EXPOSED, THEN THE EARTH GAVE US MINERALS; WE TOOLED THEM.

SOON WE WERE TOOL MASTERS’ AND ROBOTS OURSELVES, BUT NAMED OURSELVES INDUSTRALISTS.

WE SPREAD BECAUSE WE COULD FLOAT.

SHOW THUS PICTURES , TO THE HUNTER GATHERER , AND PREDICT HOW HE MIGHT NAME HIS CHILD; TRAVELLING TO FOLKSTONE FROM ST PAUL’S IN LONDON. .

I BET, HE WOULD SAY, O’ ROBERT’, SHORTCUT TO SON OF ROBOT.

( See my Drift ?)

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AS AN INDUSTRIALIST :INSIDE THE NATIVITY OF MANCHESTER , OR COVENTRY.

NOW THOSE TOOLS COULD TALK, READ, & IMPERSONATE;

NO ONE LESS SO, THAN THEIR MAKER .

ALAS ! DIDN’T THEY SPOKE WHAT THEY FORESAW ?

ARISTOTLE, SAMUEL BUTLER, JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The Ludittes, The Miners of Our days. WHO CAN FORGET ARTHUR SCAGIL ?

FROM PHYSICS, BIOLOGY TO COGNITION.

NOW AI,

BUT WHO’S AFRAID TO BE HUMAN ?

IF ALL THE DANGERS, AND EVILNESS IN TERMS OF WARS,

BE THE PREROGATIVE OF MACHINES AND TOOLS WE MAKE , FROM OUR SOFTWARE,

WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT IF WE DONT MAKE THEM SO,

BY REMAINING HUMAN ?

WHAT IF I SAY WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE, WITH AI. ?

HOW IF, I FEEL, I AM ALSO, PREJUDGED ?