What comes next? A fusion with brain and internet? *** text. descriptions of positions and inhibitions undone crawling down the screen, like morse code across the sea or an old computer reading cards, blurting out silent sentences passing lights on the screen, then gone or the News crawl passing on the bottom of the TV without the repeats all in our imaginations the touches, movements, even some sensations the connection of two biologies two living breathing human beings, much more complicated than simple machines
But this is the computer, the technology star that brought us fame and power and wealth Now seems a bit in ill health. A downward spiral, like a old rock star, playing at a seedy corner bar: the technology that sent a man to the moon and fought the Soviets until their doom the frightening technology of my childhood years, big computers creating bigger fears and now being put to good use as I have my fellow in a metaphorical noose our fingers go across the keys and send signals to each other's bodies connected in imagination with mine and it's frightening how it works to well Almost like reality, I can barely tell but then it's over and in the after glow A thought taps me on the shoulder, tells me I should know that in the end the bond with the human being has evaporated like silent steam, Not because we're mean But because he's not there but now I'm aware of a peculiar new bond with my phone