Related: I wish people still wrote poems about major achievements. Everyone knows the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, but it seems like that wasn’t an isolated thing. For example, the man who designed the Golden Gate Bridge wrote:
As harps for the winds of heaven, My web-like cables are spun; I offer my span for the traffic of man, At the gate of the setting sun.
(Apologies because I know this comment isn’t really engaging with the post itself.)
Related: I wish people still wrote poems about major achievements. Everyone knows the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, but it seems like that wasn’t an isolated thing. For example, the man who designed the Golden Gate Bridge wrote:
(Apologies because I know this comment isn’t really engaging with the post itself.)
I love this, and I actually think it’s a very relevant comment! A poem like this is a type of celebration.
It reminds me that at the Golden Gate Bridge, there is a statue of the chief engineer, Joseph Strauss, with an inscription that reads:
Soon GPT-3 will take up that task.