Technological beasts

47.

In theory,
the slingshot of progress
is hurtling humanity
toward a techno-utopian future.

In reality,
we are creating technological beasts
that compete with us
for the most basic resources:
water, energy, land.

48.

One day, we’ll have data centers and no forests.
One day, we’ll have data centers and no food.
One day, we’ll have data centers and no water.
One day, we’ll have data centers and no air.

49.

We still want to tame nature.
We are still afraid of the dark,
the forest, the wild animals.
The more we build this planet,
the more we make it our own,
the more anxious we become.

But we can’t kill the storms,
the heat, the hurricanes.
We can’t stop the ice from melting,
the oceans from rising,
the land from turning to dust.

These new wild beasts
will either tame us
or kill us.