I think personal assistants and virtual worlds, the age of robots performing labor that people used to will improve the world. With each revolution – industrial revolution, tech revolution, etc., our world has only improved and lives have been made easier and more convenient as a result. If anything, they’ll open up new avenues for life. I don’t know what those avenues are and I don’t have the answers. I do know that history is on our side with every tech boom, stemming back to when our stone-age ancestors discovered agriculture. Nothing to be afraid of, but a lot to look forward to. 

I like the freezers poetry you’ve got going on here. It is somewhat scary to think about where technology is going. For years, people have been getting lost in virtual worlds to the detriment of their real lives, families, and jobs. I had a friend who got completely sucked into a virtual game that he dropped out of college and had trouble keeping up afterwards. I know that in raising my own kids, we are trying to limit the amount of connection to the virtual world they have because we don’t want them to become dissociated with reality. It’s tough, but I feel necessary! Thanks for this thought-provoking poem.