POETRY

The Onset of Robot Society

by Ken Poyner

The question is

Are you a falling edge machine
Or a rising one?
Most people think it is the absence
Or presence of current
That makes for a one or
A zero, for set or unset, for
Tripped or un-tripped. We know
At the core of us the truth is change and not stasis:
The movement from one state to another
Is the detectable event
That records us. But in some models
It is one direction of change;
In others, it is the opposite.
If we have to hang our new social theory
On something, such is the most elemental
Of design features: we may as well start there.
Happily, the great ordering thus begins.

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