Comment from Ulla

Excellent

Oh, I came late into this. I am so behind as it is. But I want to catch up as best as I can. I like it and I agree. Technology is great up to a point. Ulla:)))

 Comment Written 15-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 18-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and all your continued support for my work. I appreciate it. estory

Comment from BethShelby

Excellent

Telling people to go back to nature is one thing but having them actually do it is another. I think the genie is out of the bottle. I don't believe my microwave is watching me but I know my telephone conversation may be public and I'm sure everything on the computer is. So far as long as I don't get on anyone's radar, I have nothing to hide.

 Comment Written 12-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 13-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and your perspective on the piece. Don't turn your back on that microwave LOL estory

Comment from jim vecchio

Excellent

My computer is watching me. My computer says "read Estory's poem". the computer wants to know what I'm reding. The computer reports to another computer. Then the computer says, "Six stars". I tell him I only have five. The computer allows me to make tht transaction, then goes bye-bye.

 Comment Written 11-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 12-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and the comments supporting the style and the theme estory

reply by jim vecchio on 12-Aug-2023

I enjoyed your post very much!

Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose

Excellent

Sounds like a scyfy movie similar to 1984 i like the mysterious style. We are all being watched and every thing we write onl I ne is used against us. Our personal inform is not private anymore.

Excellent thought provoking poem.

 Comment Written 11-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 12-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and your comments supporting my poem. estory

Comment from barbara.wilkey

Excellent

Yes, these machines do track up. When I get in my car, my phone will tell me what the traffic is doing where I'm going, and I didn't ask it to. It knows my routines each day. It's scary. Thank you for sharing.

 Comment Written 11-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 11-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and your perspective on the piece. I love when I search for insurers online and then get bombed with ads from auto insurance companies on my facebook page or browser. estory

Comment from JSD

Excellent

Yes, a nicely sinister tone to this. Well done. A tribute to Google and all the cyber-spies in our world. Thanks for sharing this. It is a successful piece.

John

"Poetry is the space between words."

 Comment Written 11-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 11-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and your comments supporting my piece. estory

Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill

Exceptional

You accomplished all you needed to. It harkened to both "1984" and today at the same time. Everything we do is watched and monitored. It is no longer science fiction. A really lovely piece of work. And I reread it after reading your comments. And, I did feel the mechanization of the pattern of the writing. Wonderful.

 Comment Written 10-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 11-Aug-2023

Thanks so much for the exceptional review, I appreciate it, and I am glad the style and format seemed to work in getting the point across. estory

Comment from Douglas Goff

Excellent

Interesting style and pattern. I enjoyed your piece of work because it is not really fiction is it. The machines are already studying our purchases and interests.

Perhaps one day we will all serve AI. Eeesh.
D

 Comment Written 10-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 11-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and your perspective on the piece. Glad I got people thinking. I wish people would realize that just because these companies come up with something that can make them money or save them money, doesn't mean it's good for society as a whole. We were not made to interact with machines. estory

reply by Douglas Goff on 11-Aug-2023

Completely agree, my friend.

Comment from Dolly'sPoems

Excellent

This is a poignant poem as we are indeed controlled by machines these days. My daughter asks a machine to turn the lights on and switch the radio on! I refuse to have such a machine in my house although I do have a mobile phone. A fine write, love Dolly x

 Comment Written 10-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 11-Aug-2023

Thanks for the excellent review and your perspective on the piece. You have to watch those devices. They can be easily hacked. estory

Comment from Iza Deleanu

Excellent

The perspective you put in your short poem is so scary. I don't think I want to become part of the machine. "The machine listens to my telephone conversations.
My telephone conversations are all compiled
In reports the machine makes to another machine
Analyzing data"

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 Comment Written 10-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 11-Aug-2023

Thanks for the exceptional review and your take on the piece. This is Stalinist eastern europe on steroids. estory