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Do computers have a future?

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For computers have gotten too big for their britches.

They're recording our calls along with the crooks',

They're pirating pop songs, great films, and big books.

They reserve our plane flights all nice and quick,

With travel pros stuck on the short end of stick.

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Computers now call slick NFL plays,

Correct the defense and analyze frays.

An endless geyser, they gush baseball stats,

Now more germane than the guys swinging bats.

Or take man's timeless pursuit of the lass:

A mix of tweets, whattsups and emails en masse.

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Then there's the danger from cyber-attackers,

Not just the Commies but lonely odd hackers,

Guys who for fun shut an airport or two,

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