I love it when what I’m reading crystallizes my thoughts into something beautiful.
Here’s one such case, where friend and fellow Writer of the Future Arthur H. Manners captured (in Analog, no less!) the essence of a question I have all the time: Even as we look ahead to the future, how will the future see us?
by Arthur H. Manners
When they look back at us,
stumbling on petrified arXiv
in the tombs of the
internet like a
Cretaceous mosquito
trapped in amber,
will they distinguish our
grandest theories of
quantum gravity
from red ochre bison
painted on the walls of
Lascaux caves?
…
Visit Analog to read the rest of the poem, and for more of Arthur’s excellent work, including online shorts and the detailed hard-science Sci-Fi Writer’s Guide to Reality, check out his site!
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J.R. Johnson 
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