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Silhouetted men interact with glowing holographic screens in a futuristic cityscape at dusk under a starry sky.

Silhouetted men interact with glowing holographic screens in a futuristic cityscape at dusk under a starry sky.

Create an image to support this poem: “We Were Never Machines” We were never machines, though we built them with dreams and fingers stained in starlight, hoping they might save us time. But time has a soul, and the soul resists efficiency. It seeks connection, friction, presence, not just productivity. What happens when code starts writing itself? When empathy is a data point and decisions are made by clouds? We stand at the fault line between invention and intention. And here, we must choose: to be architects of futures or artefacts of speed. Let the new tools be extensions of wisdom— not replacements for wonder. Let workplaces become soulplaces where humans gather to co-create meaning, not just output. We are not outpaced. We are not obsolete. We are the question the future still needs to answer with care See more