高中时非常喜欢的一首小诗。当时被其中所描述的技术乐观主义深深打动了。这可是1967年的作品呀。
由爱的恩典机器照管一切(1967)
Richard Brautigan
I like to think (and the sooner the better!)
我常常想象(越快越好!)
of a cybernetic meadow
在一块电子草地上
where mammals and computers
哺乳动物和电脑
live together in mutually
共同生活在一起
programming harmony
和谐地编程
like pure water
如水般纯净
touching clear sky.
触碰清澈的天空
I like to think(right now, please!)
我常常幻想(请就在此刻实现!)
of a cybernetic forest
在一片电子森林中
filled with pines and electronics
布满了松树和电子
where deer stroll peacefully past computers
小鹿平静地在电脑边散步
as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms.
在盛开的花丛中一般
I like to think(it has to be!)
我常常期盼(它必须实现!)
of a cybernetic ecology
一个电子生态圈
where we are free of our labors
我们从自然劳作中解放出来
and joined back to nature,
回归自然
returned to our mammal
回到我们的哺乳动物
brothers and sisters,
兄弟姐妹们身边
and all watched over by machines of loving grace.
一切都被那慈爱的机器照看着
后记:有一些由这首诗名字延伸出的作品,
书《Machines of Loving Grace:The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots 》(2015)
纪录片《All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace》(2021)
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