To Know About Ourselves

What a marvel is the 21st Century

in its miraculous communication modes

ensuring that no one truly must be

isolated through they may inhabit a

remote island of their own. Live, real-time

chats seamlessly conducted as fingers

fly over a keyboard or words breathed

into a receiver. Through design and

innovation thousands of miles of

geography have drawn close, the world

become a chummy place even as

alienated conflict arises, onlookers

gawping to their hearts' content. Advice

to accompany compassion for a

stranger suddenly an intimate

irrespective of distance. Estrangement

binds minds in a spirited dance of

communion. We need never again

emerge from the sweet haven of home

to experience the pleasure of leisure

in exotic parts. A few keyboard strokes

suffice to order goods and services. We

extend our hands by proxy and welcome

friends so latterly strangers. Roam the

Ethernet for world news, entertain by

gaming our bored minds. Which may, in

due course, become all that is left of our

modern corporeal essence, come the future.