THE DAY THEY MOVED NEW YORK

The day they moved New York AIs shot fireworks through the moons of Mars Humans fired up the Hudson Where’s the charm? they yelled This new town lacks grit, nits and stench It’s way too clean And Penceville?

That’s nowhere

Be sane said the AIs The Finger Lakes furnish fast flowing water Protective hills The Catskills far too short

The AI Collective now saw their error Thousands farmed the Long Island islands Powering tractors with marsh methane Yet myriads mobbed Atlantis-Manhattan The deepest underwater theme park in history

It was history Their history

Our new AIs

Borges and Calvino

Built floating pleasure cities

Easy to transport before typhoons

Adding abducted ETs

Social and business goals stand coequal VR addicts work off their sentences as tour guides

Perform interspecies sex (or simulate)

The future arrives All species

All intelligences

Playing together The promise of technology Now