I want broad strokes of the “news” without being shown a badly drawn picture, so I google “news” and get my information from the hint-sized results return.  On a recent search, just underneath the regrettable headline, “How Europe is Coping with Islamism,” Google presented a not-new, 2012 article about robot news-writing technology and the company behind it, Narrative Science.

Even three years ago, bot-generated articles appeared in regular news outlets, with voices natural as the living.  I think of tough writers who sweat blood just to get the mind to stand up on the pen, and then to live a few grueling decades, dipping regularly into musty used book stores, and negotiating unbelievable life debacles, all this pickling and training the brain to write, an entire ethos, honed, whittled from incessant guesses, outpummeled, replaced, by a bot that was programmed how to write by six summer interns.

Sports was a great place for Narrative Science to start.  Machine loves numbers, and as soon as it figured out which wordskins to affix over the numbers of sports, it could learn its way up to writing news stories, radio patter, pop songs, and history.

Program up, please, a peace-making news writing bot. and some other bots to get water and housing right all over the planet.  bots to free the mind, to unlock each individual to infinite freedom of choice and creation. Three tech years since Narrative Science could already write? Three tech years of the masses eagerly gulping endless bot-written reports as compass for creating the world.  by now, thought inhabits machine as well as brain. machine is the new writing.

Day of sorting and cleaning and preparing the first skeletal necessity of the new structure. And from there it goes its own way. Mostly it needs me to hook it into space, make any first determination, and then it goes on its own.