TERMINAL DATA: Thoughts on Information Obsolescence

	Today's indisputable "facts"
	will later be called "myths"

	The certainties of this moment
	will surely be eclipsed

	As long as humans exist
	the hunger for knowledge
	will grow

	& striving to feed
	our appetites for discovery
	perhaps we'll someday see

	greater amounts of data
	don't create
	greater capacities to perceive

	the connections flowing
	flowering, fusing
	through creation
	linking all beings


Brice:   (scratching his head) Is this a proper DTE device?

Anya:    (with an android accent) Perhaps, but I do not understand its link protocols.

Carlos:  (imitating Dath Vader's voice) And where is the end instrument?

Devani:  (enjoying the jest) None of you are looking in the right place: all poetry
         takes place in the imagination. Forget about clock signals!

Brice:   But this poem is not RS-232 or FS-1037C compliant!

Devani:  (shaking her head) It doesn't need to be.


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from POEATIONS: Explorations in meta-poetry by T Newfields
Summary: An image and poem about data, information, and wisdom and a jocular dialog about DTE parameters.
Keywords: data obsolescence, paradigm shifts, information vs. wisdom, computer humor

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1991 in Shizuoka, Japan ☆ Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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DEUTSCH:  https://www.tnewfields.info/de/term.htm
ESPAÑOL:  https://www.tnewfields.info/es/datos.htm
FRANÇAIS: https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/dt.htm
NIHONGO:  https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/deeta.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN: https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/shuju.htm