Progress, Not Perfection

Listening to the news, 

or a talk show, or seeing ads 

for the latest technology, 

I am stunned. 

How did all this come about 

    and why? 

The answers are 

   in the ‘cloud’. 

Up in the air or 

    deep in the ocean, 

so no more questions. 

What I do know is that 

miles to distant family are shortened. 

Coming from pencil and paper, 

a telephone on the wall with 

a long coiling cord on a party line, 

to a hand held phone and 

a vast array of technological devices 

is a joy, a tool, and an electronic 

encyclopedia of knowledge;

not to mention the threat 

of being tossed away!

Can we use our joy and 

the work of our lives to 

keep technology in its place?

As a tool, not an external mind?

“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, 

quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”

~ Tom Clancy,  The Hunt for Red October