As
I compile my family tree,
Tapping
away on my laptop PC,
I
wonder what those, whose names I type,
Would
think of life now, and all its hype.
In
days of yore the man was provider,
And
the Web they knew was spun by a spider.
Morals
have changed as well, it is true,
They'd
wonder what the world has come to!
These
days of glamour and fast cars,
Celebrity,
millionaires and scruffy pop-stars.
Televisions
with super-size screens,
And
almost all thinking being done by machines.
Eighty
years ago, who could have known
There
would be such a thing as a mobile phone?
And
if you'd thought that computers were bad,
There
would suddenly emerge the Apple iPad.
And
you may as well forget about writing a letter,
As
these days emailing is found to be better.
One
goes into bookshops, to buy or just look
For
a novel to download to one's brand new e-book.
The
news reports crime due to family dysfunctions,
Or
celebrities taking out super-injunctions.
While
we all live with the greenhouse effect,
And
the sad loss of manners and general respect.
Technology
moves fast and sweeps us along,
But
are all of these changes necessarily wrong?
Cures
for diseases and a widening of knowledge,
And
huge numbers of students at Uni and college.
Answers
to questions, which couldn't be solved
Are
nowadays nearer to being resolved.
The
age of the earth, the planets in space
And
the manifest wonders of the human race.
As
I compile my family tree,
Tapping
away on my laptop PC,
I
wonder what those, whose names I type,
Would
think of life now, and all its hype.
