2a) All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

 2a1) “This, however, all poets believe: that whoever pricks up his ears as he lies in the grass or on lonely slopes will find out something about those things that are between heaven and earth. And when they feel tender sentiments stirring, the poets always fancy that nature herself is in love with them; and that she is creeping to their ears to tell them secrets and amorous batteries; and of this they brag and boast before all mortals.        

    “Alas, there are so many things between heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed."

Thus Spoke Zarathustra Second Part, On Poets – Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann - Translator

2a2) 

I like to think (and

the sooner the better!)

of a cybernetic meadow

where mammals and computers

live together in mutually

programming harmony

like pure water

touching clear sky.

I like to think

(right now, please!)

of a cybernetic forest

filled with pines and electronics

where deer stroll peacefully

past computers

as if they were flowers

with spinning blossoms.

I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – Richard Brautigan

2a3)
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts (2011), Adam Curtis, Director

2a4) 

O wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here! 

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world 

That has such people in’t!

The Tempest Act V, Shakespeare

2a5) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke

2a5) "... about four hundred years previously, the state of mechanical knowledge was far beyond our own, and was advancing with prodigious rapidity, until one of the most learned professors of hypothetics wrote an extraordinary book (from which I propose to give extracts later on), proving that the machines were ultimately destined to supplant the race of man, and to become instinct with a vitality as different from, and superior to, that of animals, as animal to vegetable life. So convincing was his reasoning, or unreasoning, to this effect, that he carried the country with him and they made a clean sweep of all machinery that had not been in use for more than two hundred and seventy-one years (which period was arrived at after a series of compromises), and strictly forbade all further improvements and inventions" 

Samuel Butler – Erewhon 

The Butlerian Jihad at the Dune Wiki

2a7)
Ultravox "I Want to Be A Machine"