Everyday, we are bombarded with new technology that is humanising machines and making them smarter.  At the same time, we also see senseless acts of violence, anger, intolerance, making me question “are we becoming barbarians?”. The thought of this shift of humans becoming barbarians  and machines becoming humans tickled my muse.  So, where are we headed? The possible answer is in the last stanza of the poem “Machines & Humans”.