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Math, Science, Technology Prompt: My Devices

By Heather Eure 7 Comments

Girl Waiting for Train Tokyo Cell Phone
By the year 2017 the average person will have five electronic devices connected to the Internet in their house. Cisco, the world’s largest maker of network equipment, analyzes how people, companies and carriers are using the Internet now to predict the trends of the future.

By 2019, there will be nearly 3.9 billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s population). Three of these will be TV’s or other devices that remain “fixed” in the house. More and more devices are joining the Internet as “Machine to Machine” connections like appliances, cars, and medical devices. These extra devices mean extra data will be used. In 2012, the Internet household averaged 31.6 Gigabytes of traffic per month. This is the equivalent of watching 13 hours of HD Television. In 2017, this number is predicted to reach 74.5 GB per month– the equivalent of 30 hours spent watching HDTV.

There’s little doubt. We are deeply connected to our devices.

Try It

How anchored are you to a smart phone, laptop, or tablet? Write a poem based on your attachment to the various Internet-connected devices in your home. You could write your poem from the perspective of the electronic device or combine the positive and negative aspects of our connected society.

Featured Poem

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s poetry prompt. Here’s a recent poem from Prasanta we enjoyed:

Love is Chaos

(It’s relative, generally speaking)

The angle of incidence – the collision
The angle of reflection— the realization
Burned by the egregious refraction
Of searching eyes

What is the (anti) matter

Stretched between magnetic fields
Of Reason and Desire
How will the equation balance—
One side must invariably be solved

(You)—
A centripetal force inveigling —
Explain entropic delusions
and test assumptions of reality.

—by Prasanta

Photo by Toshihiro Gamo. Creative Commons via Flickr.

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Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.
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  1. Prasanta says

    November 30, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    What a lovely surprise to find my poem here this morning. Thank you!
    I am enjoying the math and science prompts– they are quite thought-provoking.

    Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      December 1, 2015 at 9:42 pm

      So glad you’ve enjoyed them!

      Reply
  2. Andrew H says

    November 30, 2015 at 7:53 pm

    Friends came to houses in days past,
    ‘Tis said in hushed and sombre tones
    That carries well along the lines
    Connecting all our phones.

    And in the gardens, children played
    With hoop and ball, in season’s Fall
    Or in its summer time of joy.
    Where now do their shrill voices call?

    Granted, all was not well, but in the cold
    A family shared a space of red
    Before the fireplace, all together
    Before the slumbers of their bed.

    Old songs and secret rhymes
    Of holly, mistletoe and wine
    Were staples of the day.
    Why, then, could they not stay?

    Now when the Christmas dinner’s done
    The children crowd for presents earned
    For good behaviour. A phone, a laptop, books
    Printed on screens and never learned.

    And I, the hypocrite, with phone in hand
    Write down the thin and drawn out lines
    Of one who now relies upon a screen
    And not the craft of older times.

    Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      December 1, 2015 at 9:48 pm

      Andrew, you’ve outdone yourself again.
      “Tis said in hushed and sombre tones/ That carries well along the lines/ Connecting all our phones.” Love that.

      Reply

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