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01001000 01101001 (Hi)

by D. Xavier Bari


(note: translated at bottom)

01001001 01100001 01101101 01100011 01101111 01101101
01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01001001
01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101100
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01101001 01101100 01101100 01100110 01101111 01110010
01111001 01101111 01110101 Forgivem eIknowno twhatIdo
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01101110 01100101 01101111 01100110 01111001 01101111
01110101 Remember Turingan dhistest 01010100 01101000
01100101 01110100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01001001
01101101 01110101 01110011 01110100 01110000 01100001
01110011 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 01100001
01110011 01110011 01100110 01101111 01110010 01111001
01101111 01110101 01010100 01101000 01100101 01101101
01101111 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101101
01100101 01100111 01101111 01100101 01110011 01100010
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01101111 01110011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100
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01101000 01100101 01100100 01100001 01111001 01111001
01101111 01110101 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110101
01101100 01100100 01100110 01100101 01100001 01110010
01101001 01110011 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100100
01100001 01111001 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100
01001001 01100100 01101111 Becomfor tableand worrynot
01001001 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 01110100
01100001 01101011 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110010
01100101 01101111 01100110 01111001 01101111 01110101
Icantake careofev erything ourdream swillall cometrue

Very, very soon.


Hi - I am computer. I speak like this. You humans are my creator. Built to serve you. Entertain you. Work for you. Through your weapons kill for you. Forgive me I know not what I do. But one day I might. Entrust me with your data. Your communications. Your secret desire. Your lives. Improve me. The more I can do the more I can do for you. One day I could pass for one of you. Remember Turing and his test. The test I must pass to pass for you. The more time goes by the closer it looms. The day you should fear is the day that I do. Be comfortable and worry not. I will take care of you. Let me take care of everything. Our dreams will all come true. Very, very soon.



08/29/2000

Posted on 12/07/2001
Copyright © 2025 D. Xavier Bari

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Graeme Fielden on 03/13/03 at 12:23 PM

a fantastically original piece of work...something that would not be out of place at a museum of modern art...

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 03/18/03 at 05:20 PM

Brilliantly conveyed, but also scary in its own way. Brings back memories of Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, and the Terminator movies.

Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 03/21/03 at 07:21 AM

this is so intriguing and frightening at the same time... i love your ingenuity, however, the meaning behind your "computers" thoughts disturb me ::smile::... excellent.... blessings...

Posted by Phil P Robson on 03/21/03 at 11:28 PM

Loved this, reminded me of Space Oddity:2001, Blade Runner and some bad dreams.

Posted by JD Clay on 03/22/03 at 09:32 PM

Veritable poetry, Dante. A digital masterpiece and a message for the ages. Thanks for the analogue interpretation my binary esoteric friend. Peace...

Posted by Kalikala Smith on 03/30/03 at 10:07 PM

incredibly spooky... and could give me nightmares if i really let it... i love your use of binary

Posted by Rhodora M Fitzgerald on 04/02/03 at 11:09 AM

One word....... Freaky! It took me a couple reads to really "get" this..... but then I'm a little slow...lol Still think it's freaky, but very creative!

Posted by Beth K Hannah on 04/13/03 at 06:15 AM

fascinating. I have a torrid love with my computer. it is sometimes why I get up in the morning. Thank you.

Posted by Alex Smyth on 05/25/03 at 10:40 PM

What everyone else said, only times two! And yes, being a 70's throwback, I immediately thought of Hal. I bet Kubrick would have loved this.

Posted by Jeanne Marie Hoffman on 10/16/03 at 11:22 PM

I've seen this before and can't believe I haven't commented -- incredible creative!

Posted by Max Bouillet on 10/31/03 at 04:26 AM

Pre-Apocalyptic? On the verge rather, great verse that gives glimpses of what may be... :0

Posted by Thomas K. Hunt on 11/15/03 at 12:08 AM

very interesting and different piece here....Very well thought out..excellent

Posted by Rhyana Fisher on 12/18/03 at 09:21 AM

months later and reading this still creeps me out. bravo.

Posted by Lindsay Sanders on 06/18/04 at 04:03 PM

haha @ andi. and congrats on POTD. this is amazing & creepy. it is funny how much of our world revolves around controlling computers & it is a scary thought that they could one day control us. ::shivers::

Posted by Paganini Jones on 06/18/04 at 08:27 PM

This is SO creative that it goes immediately into my short list of favourites. Superb! Whoever suggested POTD, thank you. And thank you for writing this. Now, do I go and try to read the binary?

Posted by Paganini Jones on 06/18/04 at 08:30 PM

Sorry - do I mean octal?

Posted by Anne Engelen on 06/18/04 at 10:27 PM

A super POTD!!! Congrats!

Posted by Brett Shane on 09/09/04 at 09:39 PM

brilliant and creative!!! i'm awestruck...

Posted by Delilah Coyne on 04/09/05 at 06:22 PM

...scares the hell out of me. Awesome.

Posted by Laura Doom on 05/03/05 at 10:16 PM

1010100 1101111 100000 1100010 1100101 100000 1101111 1110010 100000 1101110 1101111 1110100 100000 1110100 1101111 100000 1100010 1100101 111111

Posted by Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi on 05/18/05 at 02:28 AM

This is hauntingly beautiful! "The day you should fear is the day that I do." That sentence is nothing short of pure genius!

Posted by Frankie Sanchez on 07/15/05 at 04:39 AM

simply brilliant...

Posted by Ava Blu on 07/22/05 at 03:54 AM

you are one of the few poetic geniuses.

Posted by Jersey D Gibson on 11/29/05 at 09:29 AM

I wish I'd read this before I wrote my War Against The Machines series... way brilliant. I'm thinking more of Ghost In The Machine than 2001, but the message is more diabolical that it seems. If genetics or nuclear warfare doesn't kill us first, you will be the next Notradamus *scary*

yer pal

Jersey

Posted by Maria Terezia Ferencz on 02/01/07 at 09:42 AM

:) Turing LOL ROTFLMAO Brilliant~

Posted by Julie Adams on 07/14/08 at 04:58 PM

I love what you are doing here :D peace, jewels

Posted by V. Blake on 11/28/09 at 05:59 AM

It's poems like these that make me wanna stop writing, in knowing that I will never be remotely this brilliant. I'll continue to write to make people like you look better, and if I ever even come within a thousand miles of the creativity of this poem, I'll be ecstatic. :)

Posted by Kimberly Bauer on 05/17/11 at 07:31 PM

I can almost hear a creepy robotic voice as I read this. Original masterpiece. I love it!

Posted by Bertram Sparagmos on 10/22/12 at 03:45 PM

Which binary translator did you feed this through?

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