{"sf1_id":288285,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Paradise Lost Through Innovation","author":"Jikan Tunderiska","words":105,"posted_at":"2011-09-19T23:48:00.000Z","tags":["Death","Other","Poetry","Science","Steam Punk","Violence"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/288285-paradise-lost-through-innovation","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/288285","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=288285\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Could you imagine a dark stormy night,  \nSparks flying in windows of a workshop  \nMechanics hard at work, obscured by light.  \n  \nThey work for science, they work for pursuit.  \nNeither fame nor fortune, in minds, at top.  \nThey work for progression, so the points moot.  \n  \nAt last thy emerge from their lonely shops,  \nThe science completed, the world grows wise  \nFor they released monstrosities; guns pop  \nInto the air that is filling with flies.  \n  \nCould we have stopped them? Or would they have won?  \nWould we have been better, for without them  \nLives would be saved, technology gone.  \nAnother comes along, doing the same.  \n\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}