The Computing Paradoxes Poem by bie Ansobie Biliguo

The computing paradoxes
(In memory of the seventieth anniversary of modern computing)

Man seeks to preserve endangered knowledge
So we do not sing loud encomia and throw into oblivion
The silent noises of the novelty and jinx
One must recount these computing paradoxes
Just as in time of ENIAC Babbage was naught
Now is the seventieth anniversary of this curious science

Oft man relies on the dumb machine
To operate with its own set of iron-clad rules
To pose men in its pace and gait
Through the celebrative dede with solid state devices
The masochism of binary digits
The translators that do the programmer's bidding
To clog our high hopes on unknown interfaces
Where bugs make us to abandon hope
And joy to cling to these inanimate folks
In waist pains, blur vision and strain injuries
For the world wide wait to rid us of elderly dignity
Herein is internet crime and cyber-fraud
In tele-presence of transaction systems
The burden of malware as worm and Trojan horse
which threaten our daily bread till we do them in
As mobile electrons vacate their stream
It plunges us into darkness and doom
Yet human wisdom reigns unsurpassed
Than any abacus, ENIAC, super or quantum computers

In time the machine does yield to learn
The inexact patterns of artificial intelligence
Through intangible imaging, syntax and semantics
With the discrepancies of industrial robotics
The biometrics and ubiquitous computing
That challenges the computer scientist's authority
As a social norm and communication vehicle
Among his user-peers who read the trendy novelty
O friend, lay down thy codes, and weep!