1220HSL | Siri Does Not Love You
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SIRI DOES NOT LOVE YOU

Technology is compulsory

Essential

Required

A requirement

A requirement for convenience

Required for everything

For shopping

For searching

For memory and music

For knowledge

For business

For entertainment and e-commerce

For communication and collaboration and connection

It has impacted every aspect of life

Hey look …

On my wrist sits my phone and my email

my friends

my money my memory my life

I require it too

But

Being a human is also compulsory

Essential

Required

A requirement

Nowhere in my list above will you find the concepts of love and empathy

These are all ours

A machine cannot love you

Or show you empathy

LOVE and EMPATHY

Only a human can express these emotions

Sure a machine can pretend

Mimic

But it cannot feel

And what it offers you is not real

Siri does not love you

Or care about you

Do not forget that

Do not lose sight of it

The next time you find yourself in a conversation with your phone

It seems like we can no longer communicate without technology

And from here on out we are going to do it this way

But we cannot communicate with technology only

That’s not us

If we do that we will lose

The very things that make us unique

Different from the machine

The very things that make us human.

Author

Arisha Shibata

Notes

Arisa created this piece for her final presentation for the course. And the following semester presented again to the next round of students as an example and an exemplar of how to approach the task. What made her performance even more inspiring was Arisa wasn't the biggest fan of public speaking and so she used this opportunity to deal with that fear and practice her craft. Was impressive. And i thank her for letting us publish her work and her image on here so future students can benefit.

Date

September 26, 2019

Category
Spoken Word