Miracles and Wonders

TTTO “Boy in the Bubble” by Paul Simon

There is a shutter-click

And the app is beeping

As it notices the QR codes

There is a LED light

When our phones connect to facebook

So every couple’s marriage

Is sent to us by radio

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There are the days of miracle and wonder,

Like cellphones making a call

When kids can play with better things than LOGO

As chips can keep getting small

The way we notice a distant exo-planet

By seeing just a wobble in a star

These are the days of miracle and wonder,

We’ll go far, baby, go far, go far

It’s a new land

When the thinking hits the pay-dirt

Another idea is given birth

And inert sand,

Turning into silicon

Making the transistors

As we automate the earth

[Bridge]

It’s an automatic chat-bot

It’s making pretty pie-charts

From shoulders of great giants, we launch into a running start

Medicine is glorious, a life-preserving art

Think of the boy in the bubble

And the baby with the babboon heart

These are the days of lasers playing music

Lasers playing music, somewhere

Staccatto signals of bit-wise information

No longer just for the millionaires

Or billionairs, and baby…

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