Worth, worthless
Meanings, reasons, beliefs
sharpening the intellect,
sullying the intelligence,
caged albums,
memories I need to sit upon
I carry on my head,
a herculean burden;
there’s no meaning in nature
other than what it simply is;
with the three humanly designed
impediments, boons, and banes,
clashes are inevitable.
Don’t blame the child
shooting on the computer
waiting, wanting, willing,
yearning to shoot for real.
You know scores of things
more than I do, but now
I have a machine that knows
thousand times more than you;
so, now what is your value,
it’s perhaps nothing
other than the worth
of a human being.
© supratik 2023
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S,
Well laid out and thought provoking piece.
The computer, though, is just a tool. It does not know a “thousand times more than you”; it is just a simple indexing and retrieval mechanism that we use to enable us to do things faster and more efficiently. And you don’t answer the pivotal question: what is the worth of a human being? How do you measure that?
bhi
Thank you for your response Bhi. Memory is a tool; I am told that computer and their configurations had been designed according to the human brain. Its memory can store data a trillion times more than a human can retain. If you have attained a degree, viz. that of engineering, medicine, literature, law, accountancy, it is by means of retaining huge data inside your brain. People who belong to the ‘cream of population’ can now be replaced, to a large extent, by the AI. Then what is your worth? It is your worth of a human being, a human being… Read more »