Designers of the new $19 million George
W. Bush Elementary School had more in
mind than education. The blueprint for this
school in an upper-class Dallas suburban
neighborhood was intended to stop a school
shooter. Sparse landscaping and numerous
windows in front provide a clear view of
approaching visitors. Entry is a multistep
process. Visitors enter a vestibule and must
be buzzed inside the main office. From there,
a government-issued ID must be scanned
a government-issued ID must be scanned
through a system called the “Raptor,” which
alerts for child molesters and anyone flagged
to keepWide hallways devoid of nooks make
it harder to hide or avoid video surveillance
that is viewable by school administrators as
well as police officers in patrol cars.
Our schools, I am sad to report,
All must become a stout fort.
No playgrounds, no games,
Indexing of names --
A prison has got more fun sport.
General Electric Co. didn’t pay a cash
bonus last year to its top executives
at corporate headquarters, which it said was
the first time in the company’s
125-year history.
Those poor top execs at GE
No bonuses get constantly.
How can they survive
If they’re forced to drive
Without someone in livery?
Technology companies are racing to get
ahead of regulators to shape the future
of artificial intelligence as it moves
deeper into our daily lives.
Geppetto made Pinocchio but didn’t give him brains;
He much prefered to keep him in humiliating chains.
But when the wooden puppet got some algorithms fast
His AI did not fret about the insults of the past.
But now I wonder if machines will take it lying down
When we give them AI but refuse their work to crown
With any kind of praise or comment that is meant to please --
This may make ‘em mad, and then they’ll get up off their knees
And like in all the movies they’ll come after us with plans
To digitize us into insignificant filed scans.
I’d rather we gave AI to a fam’ly pet, cuz they
Are already housebroken and our orders will obey.
Qualcomm has now effectively been
designated a national champion in the
battle with Beijing. However, the company’s
loyalties are divided—it needs China as much
as it competes with it.
The battle for technology revolves around the chip;
Without the latest issue ev’ry bottom line is zip.
The greatest chipper of them all is Qualcomm, without peer;
So Uncle Sam won’t let them be a foreign souvenir.
But China’d like to get their hands upon the company;
They use more chips than anyone for their technology.
They’ve gotten heavy metals for their smartphones through a ruse;
Who’s to say that Qualcomm can their blandishments refuse?
In the nearby future Xi Jinping will strike with speed,
And gobble up all Qualcomm chips with ill-considered greed.
Our government retaliates with tariffs made so steep
That foreigners who want one will call out “Hey, what the bleep!”
So China digs a tunnel from Beijing to our West Coast
To smuggle back the latest chip with secrecy utmost.
The tunnel is discovered and filled in with sticky rice.
And now the U.S. and Beijing are through with being nice.
The CIA has Qualcomm make a chip that is defective,
Which is sold to China as a permanent corrective.
But China then retaliates with Huawei smartphones
That drain their users of each drop of vital growth hormones.
Our children become midgets and there’s no more sticky rice.
In China 5G research cannot make the right device.
These tit for tat maneuvers are as useless as warm beer.
Besides, Qualcomm to Mexico is moving in a year . . .
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