Transparent World

These are the Days of Transparency.

Once we were Invisible to the World.

Some still cling to Illusions of Privacy

but now we’re all Naked to our World.

Proud or Shy, Prudish or Nudist, every Intimacy

is Revealed in Touch or Click of our Screened World.

Governments, Corporations, Military

want to Know your Inner World.

Even Those Empowered through Secrecy

must now Live in their Transparent World.

Computers with Algorithms, AI Dependency-

soon Machines will Command this World.

I welcome a World of Transparency

but will Machines make a Better World?

(May 20, 2021- Shelley Wilson)