Age of Enlightenment

I am truly amazed with technology today.

I may have said that had I been alive the

day the trivochet was invented, or had I

been there to witness Fulton’s steam

engine propel his boat on the Hudson River.

Indeed, I would have marveled that day the

Wright Brother’s first plane lifted off the

ground at Kitty Hawk. All were giant leaps

in mankind’s innovative scientific achieve-

ments. Ah, but for me those firsts pale in

significance to what I have witnesses in my

lifetime’s relatively short span on the Planet.

Why, just today, while fiddling around with

my new Amazon Echo device, colloquially

known as, Alexa, to play Don’t Stop Me Now

by Queen. And within seconds that exact

tune filled my room with Freddy Mercury’s

music. Simply amazing! In fact, virtually

everything I have asked of Alexa has accu-

rately come to pass. I must say, informa-

tively and hands down, she preforms better

than the fabled three-wishes, Arabic Genie

of old. Alexa (I began), You are so smart. I am

impressed beyond expression with your speed

and capabilities. You are the woman I have

been looking for my entire life. Will you marry

me? Pausing for what seemed to me to be an

inordinate period of time, Alexa responded—

“Playing Marry Me by Thomas Rhett.” I took

that as a negative response to my betrothal

proposal, figuring in her all-encompassing,

expansive cloud of knowledge, she had likely

accessed the less than stellar records of my

two previous marriages. Oh, what the hell,

I never really understood women all that well

anyway...

Alexa, stop!

Chris Hanch 3-28-19