"Cry Havoc, and Let Loose The Dogs Of War!" – from Marc Antony's speech in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
When I was reading "The Time Machine"
In the process of researching another sci-fi author of his time ( just preceding )
Something sprang up and slammed into my head
Like an angry earworm, and I slipped into an obsessive vision
Brain filling up with
The Sack of Rome
Kristallnacht
An early date in 2021
I'm wired that way I can't help it
And this vision is pulling me into the future
Everything is crazy
The AIs watch and laugh and laugh
The Singularity* is soon to take over
And the death of work is being accomplished
And in my mind, at last, H.G. Wells speaks softly to the apocalyptic scene before him, with his eyebrows up:
"This needs work!"
*(See Wikipedia, "Technical Singularity").
Below, H.G. Wells at a young age ( "The Time Machine" was his first novel ).
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