Dimensional Doodles

Digital Mosaic

In cyberspace, where ones and zeros reign,
Matrix lite, no pill required, just brain strain
Rheingold's flash mobs twerk, sans ball and chain,
Suddenly all dancers, coordination? Down the drain

Berners-Lee's web, a tangled fishing net,
Where productivity goes to die, you bet
Castells' networks, where info-junkies fret,
FOMO's now a diagnosis, don't forget

Negroponte's bits, atoms' sassy cousin,
Physics jealous of comp sci, by the dozen
Shirky's surplus floods our minds, no fussin',
Info overload: new obesity, it's buzzin'

Lessig's code, a digital constitution,
T&Cs: the unread novel, no solution
Zuboff warns of Big Brother's evolution,
Your toaster's spying, welcome to seclusion

Papert's mindstorms, Turkle's pixelated "me,"
Identity crisis in HD, can't you see?
Prensky's natives swipe and scroll with glee,
Kids these days, am I right? Oh, dear me

Rushkoff's time-warp, a present-day migraine,
When "now" is ancient, five seconds' disdain
Lanier's gadgets, our new ball-and-chain,
Pocket-sized freedom, what do we gain?

Benkler's peer riches, free as mountain air,
If "free" means sanity's no longer there
Morozov's delusions, a digital nightmare,
Internet: dream-killer extraordinaire

Doctorow's voices, a cacophonous choir,
Twitter with pretense, rising ever higher
Pariser's bubbles trap us in echo-chamber mire,
Where you agree with you, ain't that dire?

O'Reilly's Web 2.0, a collaborative mess,
One internet wasn't chaotic? We'll address
Boyd's public square, where drama's in excess,
High school online, eternal duress

Keen's amateurs, wielding keyboards like swords,
Experts everywhere, especially when ignored
Weinberger's small pieces, digital hoarders' rewards,
Data: new cats for collectors, oh lord!

McLuhan's electric kool-aid media test,
Turn on, tune in, log on, no rest
Postman's technopoly, humanity's arrest,
Spoiler: machines won, we're second-best

Cooperrider dreams in virtual village huts,
Binary Burning Man, no ifs or buts
As Senge's systems learn to tie our knots,
Brain-tangling included, no extra shots

Schein peels culture like a digital onion,
Tears flow freely, no veggies in this dominion
Nonaka's knowledge spirals, a brain's companion,
Learning now dizzying, that's our opinion

Weick makes sense of Latour's actor-net drama,
Soap operas pale next to academic panorama
Haraway's cyborg blurs bot and mama,
Identity Crisis 2.0: no need for trauma

Lévy's hive mind buzzes in the cloud,
One big confused bee, humming proud
Urry's mobilities keep us proudly loud,
Silence is passé, noise is allowed

Bauman's liquid world, where nothing's concrete,
Except screen addiction, that's hard to beat
Virilio's speed leaves reality obsolete,
Who needs real life when WiFi's so sweet?

Morton's mesh tangles in climate change knots,
Nature's revenge served with ironic plots
Harman's objects philosophize their lots,
Your mug's existential crisis connects the dots

Stiegler's technics make our heads spin 'round,
Vertigo's the new normal, we've found
As we surf this digital merry-go-round,
Nausea free with every go-around!