The narrator in "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" expresses a desire to live in the future. He states his desire for a cybernetic ecology, meadow, and forest for right now. He says "the sooner the better" and "right now please" to emphasize his desire. He does not mistrust machines because he wants electronic deer and computers like flowers. He is not ambivalent about religion, and he is not obsessed with technology because he also wants natural things to exist with the technology in harmony.
