Is This Day Upon Us?

 

 

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction.

The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Albert Einstein (1870-1955)

 

Just Asking

 

Pertaining to this quote I really wish I could give you

The exact day and time

And what was foremost on the mind

Of this luminary, Albert Einstein.

 

The aspect of the technology then

That could have prompted Einstein’s quote

That today, February 28, 2021,

Could strike such a chilling note.

 

There is no comparison, I dare say,

Between his era and ours

Regarding the technological advances

Especially that of computers. 

And yet he had a morbid fear

That such a day would come

When technology would gain the ascendancy

And put human interaction on the run.

 

I ask, is this day upon us?

Has technology become the go-to tool?

Are we relegated to idiocy?

Have we in fact become as fools?

 

 

And what of the great minds

That created the technology?

Have they now become less intelligent?

Is this our inevitable eulogy?

 

And what of the world’s leaders

In that idiotic generation?

Will they place more trust in technology

Than across the table interaction?

 

A generation of idiots!

And what of the offspring of these?

Will there be a change or more of the same?

What are the possibilities?

 

When the created replaces the creator

That’s the pinnacle of lunacy,

No doubt the brilliant Albert Einstein

Feared such an eventuality.

 

 

His quote presupposes the “when”

Certainly, more so that the “if”,

It appeared to be only a matter of time,

If you catch my drift.

 

Is this day upon us?

Is it swiftly drawing near?

That COVID-19 is a major indicator

To us should be very clear.

 

Here is another Einstein quote

I believe fits perfectly here,

The technology lacks one of the following

To me this is very clear.

 

You can determine which one

I will finish with the quote,

Just bear in mind that one without the other

Is murder she wrote.

 

“Science without religion is lame,

Religion without science is blind.”

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

Stewart Russell © February 28, 2021

 

By the way:

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle (384-422 BC)