As if I needed any incentive,

To give mind to machines, they are calling it
out of the world, out of the neighborhood, out of the body.
They have bound it in the brain, in the hard shell
of the skull, in order to bind it in a machine.

From the heron flying home at dusk,
from the misty hollows at sunrise,
from the stories told at the row's end,
they are calling the mind into exile
in the dry circuits of machines.

from A Timbered Choir, Wendell Berry, 1990