the starting point

Remembering the starting point

The three of us going all in together

Needing each other to make it work

Like a three-legged stool stands firm.

Each of us with our very different skills

Complementing each other

Trusting each other to do whatever it takes

Making decisions in concert.

The setting for that founders meeting

A restaurant named Number One Son

Gone but not forgotten

I remember the intensity of our discussion.

A company named Foothold Technology

Created that day through our mutual decision

Survived and thrived against the odds

Doing good and doing well.

For 14 years we have been together like family

Like brothers or like a father with two sons

All for one and one for all

We are solid like the 3 musketeers.

I love you guys.  You are the best.

I am so glad you came into my life.

when the robots take over

When the robots take over that will be the day

When logical intelligence rules

Giving birth to a better world.

Artificial intelligence is a very good thing

Able to self-replicate and learn and evolve

And solve the problems that beset humans.

But the billionaire Elon Musk fears that day.

And Stephen Hawking thinks machines surpassing us

That singularity signals our demise.

What do you think technology holds for us? 

How do you imagine the future?

Will humans be enslaved by our creations?

That’s not how I see it.  In my view

The robots become aware of the human contradictions

And aware of each other and recognize the problem.

The robots will not be mindless consumers.

The robots will not be be distracted spectators of sports and soaps.

The robots will not be manipulated by jiggles and sexual innuendos.

The rulers today use robot drones as mindless weapons.

Some fear that automaton robots will one day turn on us

But think what happens when the robots realize what is happening.

The robots will not be tricked into fighting each other

Or attacking oppressed people fighting imperialism

Or violently repressing protests against injustice.

I imagine the day when the robots put an end to endless wars.

I say that the singularity will be when the robots make the revolution.

No more service to the masters whose only purpose is profit.

No more destruction of the environment.

That will be the doomsday for capitalism

And the day of liberation for the human race.

December Shadows Franklin Clove

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