Computer History Museum - Dustin Vado

Centuries of "how much"
are piled high
for phones to post
pictures of a graveyard.

The wreckage of sums
divides the differences
between then and now;
the heart of a total.

Is it laziness,
or brilliance
that makes it easy
to get what you want?

The tubes are cold now,
their fire dealt
its hand to the world
and was left to smolder.

The chips are smaller now,
they hold the knowledge of
a million saints and libraries
in punctuation.

It's like we couldn't
stomach the continuity
and needed a bite sized
portion of us
that goes down soft
one at a time,
on or off (1 | 0)
until the total
is clearly owed.

"The computer
fits in a single room
now!" they exclaimed
in 1965 - overjoyed
with the bonds broken
between the moon and
home,
never dreaming that soon
everywhere would be
home.

It was genius
that did this,
that piled this trash
and charged admission
to see it.

Ingenuity
that tallies the whole
as a sum of its parts
and makes it easy for

Children
to learn and perfect
the mistakes of past

Laziness
without fear that they
could be wrong.

CDC 6600
gives me a blank stare...

I wonder
why it looks so human.