Time magazine recently featured an article speculating that over the next few decades half of all employees will become superfluous as machines will be able to take over their jobs. I can top that: Machines cannot only - in principle - do every work we do, they also are much better consumers and hence much better for the economy! I can only watch so many movies, only consume so much of anything, while the great philosopher Douglas Adams already had predicted that one day video recorders will not only RECORD TV programs, but also WATCH them! Hail to the economy! The time will come when humans are not needed anymore for the "Economy" in order to operate. We simply are, well, too uneconomical...
Poets will be among the first to loose out. Poetry generators have been around for decades, and basically their output feels convincing because it is highly subjective what constitutes a good poem in the first place. See this one:
Love is hate...
what have you done to me?
a dark black shadowy cloud of agony as affections shudder.
once we tasted wonder,
wide-eyed and untainted,
but your thirst perished.
a feverish morass of lies -
emotions follow death, follow rain,
love ground to dust.
in a torrent of vengeance,
i condemn you.
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