Big Brothers Spider Web
A poem by paul f renda
Big Brothers Spider Web
The social media I know so well
Is the technology I fear the most
The much feared, all knowing
Omnipresent telescreens of 1984
Operating under the watchful gaze of Big Brother
Never materialized
But the all-knowing information webs of 2013 that know
Who you are,
What you are
How you are
And what you will be
Have been the reality for some time
Our most intimate secrets of our daily lives
Reside on the information webs of society
The web feeds us cookies when we are good
And shuns us when we are bad
The technology that I know so well
May bring the downfall I fear the most
(Note: if you want to meet the author of this article he performs with others at the Bodega monthly poetry and short story reading, on the first Sunday of every month. 24 ST Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn New York) I wrote this poem in 1999 but it is more true today