“A thousand-bit quantum computer would vastly outperform any conceivable DNA computer.”--Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)
“Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.”—George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906)
It’s 2030, the bell has rung,
the Singularity’s begun!
I must devour, lacking spice,
this genius in a small device.
If not, it must devour me.
So what, then, should I swallow first?
What morsel mightn’t be the worst?
(No way--it’s not the space bar key!)
A problem plaguing mortal sin
is Adam’s puzzle, how begin?
Perhaps I should start (suggestions, please)
with--for hors d’oeuvres--parentheses
bracketing off this little glimpse of Heaven
from great, fast-approaching Armageddon?
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