RANSOM-WARE
No need for an organic virus
to terrorise:
one clever little spy algorithm
inserted into your pocket, hand or mind
invades and consumes entire paradigms
even whilst you sleep;
dodges about, hacking cyberspace,
plugging into the collective, unpoliced,
penetrating high-security firewalls
freely accessing top-secret gov. data
and the personal details of trillions:
secrets, encryptions, blueprints, codes,
gameplans, protocols, formula, ciphers
and acquiring lowdown to expose, coerce, intimidate, brainwash and blackmail,
replacing autonomy with conditioned, nicely programmed and controllable automatons…
despite their claiming a democratic vote!
Who would be so dumb as to switch the thing off,
strip the ionosphere of those satellites
or go without superspeed downloads,
and hyper two-way availability.
Jinx the process of morphing into cyborg
or becoming fully silicon based.