I wrote a poem entitled Neuronet. It is divided in four cantos:

• Technoprologue
• Nanopolis: Canto I
• Nanopolis: Canto II
• The Synax Guards

I want to share the first one with you.

Technoprologue

Let’s link musing thus: a neuroscience juncture

in symbiosis with nanotechnology.

Let’s think saying thus: cognitive neuroscience

starts intersecting with atomic precision.

Let’s visualize and, too, view: neural overlap.

The mentation of and the perception itself.

Subtle drawings by electromyographists

write about mirrors echoing the different lines.

Let’s remember now, computed revolution:

infoprocessing, data manipulation.

Said later proceeds in ultramicrodetail.

Materials handling, psychic phenomena shine.

Let’s doubt, friend Drexler, you who epistemize thus.

Because it strikes us: who will use, who will abuse?

Alas, we forecast it’s more a question of when

than if… perhaps… we enable a prognosis.