The City spans a vertical mile, its shining Twisting fractal art in the sky. Your phone’s smart; it’s thinkin’ up jokes Your contacts lase an animation onto your eye. Uplifted animals run for office. They’re humanly smart — that’s science for you! The tourists follow Armstrong’s step, They’re all popping designer drugs as they do.
“There’s no homeless, and we’ve all we can eat.” Said the Mayor’s speech last night. There’s dogs and there’s squid in the street. They can vote, but don’t got human rights. Big pharma says: “Get ahead in life. Dose your kid’s brain; raise her IQ.” News says they turn vegetable, But the EULA says you can’t sue. And so…
Future shock is society’s boon. It might not kill us, just turn life around. When am I s’posed to silence my phone? Trust a robot surgeon of world-renown? How many petabytes is enough? How augmented do I want my reality? In a world where we are merging our minds How do we approach the Singularity?