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Technological progress

Thór Stefánsson · Iceland

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TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS

When technology takes all power

and no more facilitates

human relations,

but replaces them.

When we do not talk anymore together

except by mobile phone or computer

and every human intimacy

becomes secondary.

When children do not play anymore together,

but each one only in his own electronic world,

and a mother does not give her breast

unless her eye is fixed on the mobile screen.

And if we see a reason
to maintain the human race,

it only will be

by in-vitro fertilization,

then we will be lost.

Thór Stefánsson, Iceland

Translation by the author, Germain Droogenbroodt and Stanley Barkan

from: „Réflexions“, Editions du Cygne, 2023

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