SOMEDAY: A Vision of One Possible Future

	Someday . . .
	   distant planets may see human shapes
	   and entire planets evolve into massive brains.

	Someday . . .
	   this galaxy will vanish in space
	   as once radiant stars gradually fade.

	Someday . . .
	   physics will blend with alchemy
	   and most research will involve 
	   forces more subtle and powerful
	   than we have dreamed.


Nadya: (blowing her nose like a trumpet) Perhaps someday people won't write trashy stuff like this.

Liao:  (pausing) Ah, you're practicing what Peter Elbow calls "the doubting game." 
       That has its place, but too much doubt and skepticism results in a very cold existence.

Bill:  Yeah. I guess sometimes we need to believe – even when it is against all odds.


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A poem about possible futures and dialog about doubt and faith.
KEYWORDS: human evolution, possible futures, the doubting game, post-human prospects

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1988 in Brattleboro, VT, USA / Finished: 2017 in Xīn-Táiběi, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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DEUTSCH:  https://www.tnewfields.info/de/irgendwann.htm
ESPAÑOL:  https://www.tnewfields.info/es/algun.htm
FRANÇAIS: https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/un.htm
NIHONGO:  https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/itsuka.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN: https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/tian.htm