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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#1099642 added October 19, 2025 at 12:27pm
Restrictions: None
What? No Technology, No WdC? Yikes!
Prompt:
What if a massive storm wipes out technology, thrusting society into a new dark age without electricity and internet? What would happen to you, then? Could you survive it?


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I guess I would survive it, but barely. As long as paper and pencil or pen would be available, but I bet during such a catastrophe, even those things would end up being luxury items. On the plus side, I'd go to bed as soon as it got dark outside and wake up as soon as the morning dawned, in which case, that could be an improvement. Yet, I'd miss the search engines, WdC, reading online or listening to books, not to mention my appliances and household items that work with electricity. Come to think of it, I can't imagine doing an entire laundry by hand.

What I wouldn't miss would be the recent gauche handling of AI, by my email and internet company, Microsoft, and other companies that I deal with almost daily. I guess there wouldn't be phones anymore either, so no waiting on the phone for eternity for some agent from one company or another to answer, if only to put me on hold.

Still, even though I carp a lot about people and companies mishandling AI, I think I am--just like most of us is--seriously addicted to technology. And I hope, in no time, whatever is making people deal wrongly with something so useful as technology can wear out, and people and businesses learn the most effective ways to deal with the technological advancements to make our lives better.


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