I wonder how many people are out there agree with me that it is high time to connect the dots between Friedrich Hölderlin, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Richard Cowper, and of course Dan Simmon. Anyone familiar with Dan Simmon’s Hyperion Cantos will know that the titanic struggle between the Core AIs and their creators (us) reverberates across space and time, and thus it is no surprise that the Romantics got caught up in it. Having written my PhD thesis on the works of Richard Cowper (who relies heavily on William Blake and John Keats), I am keen to explore all possible avenues from classics to cyberspace. On he flared…