> There is no question that poetry will be subsumed, and soon, into the ideology of data collection, existing on the same spectrum as footstep counters, high-fr

> There is no question that poetry will be subsumed, and soon, into the ideology of data collection, existing on the same spectrum as footstep counters, high-frequency stock trading, and Netflix recommendations. Maybe this is how the so-called singularity—the moment machines exceed humans and, in turn, refashion us—comes about. This reminds me of in the mid to late oughts in biology we had similar futurists telling us the scientific discipline of taxonomy would be rendered obsolete by advances in DNA barcoding. It seems naive in hindsight. Genetic techniques are now established as a tool to aid taxonomy, but one among many. I wonder if those in literature would feel the same about this.