When the technology we are urged to trust
seems to us like an errant child we want to punish,
because it has done what we didn't want it to do,
the fault probably started with us; as adults,
we never learned how to control it, or what makes it work.
It is up to us, the older we get, to simplify
what we rely on, and make technology our servant
on terms we prefer, rather than allow ourselves
to be led by advertising that talks tech up
to be 'the new master', The Way ahead.
I do not want to quantify the media hot airtime
that is dedicated to promoting AI as 'the new tool
to be increasingly efficient' when as technology goes
it is jut another servant that we have to set limits on,
and define it's tasks tightly, if it is to meet our needs.
Advertising is to materialism what porn is to sex,
illustration to the point of unaware self-parody.
We need a wider awareness than adverts allow,
whatever they pay for, to help us define need over want.
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