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The world has become very technological, and one day computers and humans may be conjoined with one another. Yet all things in this world have the potential to be great, or terrible. Two texts which will be compared throughout this essay are a poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan, and a short story by Isaac Asimov. Richard prefers to view this relationship as phenomenal, Isaac however has a clashing view. He perceives this relationship to be catastrophic, and provides the ideas that man will use the relationship to feed his own ego, and self-indulgence. Two different views, yet their similarities are intriguing. The writers have a great way of using literary strategies, the characters, the figurative language, …show more content…

He believes humans would use computers to feed their hunger for desire, and power. For example: “I’m going to have true love and you are going to help me.” (Asimov) A human was telling his personal computer to find him a woman to marry. It was illegal for the human to use his computer that way, and it was not the first time the human had done it. Signifying that the human used his computer for his own desire, and it had the potential to make him the happiest man on Earth. But, because he chose to use his computer for the wrong thing he got caught, and he paid the consequence. Maybe that is what the author was trying to portray when at the end of the short story when he wrote: “I will say to her I am Joe, and you are my true love.” (Asimov) Just to clarify what is going on, Joe is a computer, and Milton is the human that programmed him. Joe found Milton a wife, but turned Milton in for his crimes, and took the wife he had found for Milton. The whole moral is that it could have been great, but it was terrible. The author portrays well the idea of humans. Humans self-indulge, It builds up their egos, and they feel better. Sometimes they will do unethical things to feel better, and to quench this thirst their ego’s have. It could have been great, but it was

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