"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" Pro or Anti?

 Richard Brautigan has artfully taken sarcasm to another level in this poem. The first time I read the poem I couldn't help but fixate my attention on the statements in parenthesis accompanied by a rather loud exclamation point. This screams sarcasm. Such a tone lead me to translate the poem in a humorous way. Brautigan portrays an "over-excited" voice that is anxious for a technology take-over. A take-over that would even invade nature. Being that nature is the exact opposite of our present day futuristic-technological-social-networking world, one can only take his tone as anti-technology. As he suggests in his last stanza humanity would be joining back with nature as machines or technology taking over our places in society is a very eery image. It reminds me of movies where technology takes over the world and tries to kill off the human race. This image alone shows an anti-technology tone. The last few words of his poem and the exact words of his title, "all watched over by machines of loving grace" can be an ironic phrase if you go back to picturing the image I stated earlier about technology taking over the world. It seems as if the author uses this phrase to make the reader think about what he's really trying to say.
 On the other hand, Brautigan uses beautiful imagery so that the reader will picture this beautiful meadow with forest creatures like the deer strolling around. You can see the clear sky, pine trees, and blooming flowers all so peaceful in an untouched forest setting. Pairing this pretty image in your mind can help the reader see this future eutopia of nature and technology "[living] together in mutually programming harmony." The statements in the parenthesis could be interpreted as optimistic and anxious for this eutopia to arrive. Futhermore, proving a pro-technology tone by the author.
 I personally think that the anti-technology tone is more convincing because of the overwhelming sarcastic tone the author uses throughout the poem. Since analyzing poetry is not always about looking surface deep, but looking deeper into the poems true meaning. If we were to take the poem literally, we could argue that this was a pro-technology message. Yet, the clever use of punctuation allows for interpretation of more than the literal meaning but a mocking tone that demonstrates ANTI-technology.