Poem - MAG Poetry Prize 2010
WHAT WILL OUR FUTURE BE LIKE?
by
Jamshedpur,INDIA, India
In the future, will we
Live on Mars?
Discover another universe?
In the future, will we
Travel to the stars?
Find ourselves distributed between
(say) Mars and Earth?
In the future, will we
Meet the Extra-Terrestrial (ET)?
Take vacations in space?
In the future, will we
Have 8.3 Billion people?
And energy, food and water
shortages?
In the future, will we
Have increased carbon emissions?
And drought, famine and hunger?
In the future, will we
See our glaciers melt?
And our mega-cities sink?
In the future, will we
Receive our first messages from
civilizations in our neighboring galactic valleys?
From those not so remote in our
future?
In the future, will we
Have men
bearing children?
See cloning
become free?
In the future, will we
Have robots
ordering their creators?
Have a
computer in every school?
In the future, will we
See silicon
chips being implanted inside the human body?
And technology
linked to human intelligence?
In the future, will we
Put robots to
work in developing countries?
Create
Androids with emotions?
In the future, will we
See the
mapping of the human genetic code find new medicines and cures?
See space
travel deal with our growing population?
In the future, will we
Have
cyber-commoners, cyber-vehicles, cyber-parliaments and cyber shanty-towns?
Settle in
the distant future?
In the future, will we
Be crushed by an asteroid?
Added: 13.04.2010
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