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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Bob Explains the Android Meme with iON

Transcribed by Bert.

Payday

[6 December 2014 Part 2]

(1:13:11)
Caller: Bob, can you define the “Android Meme” again? I missed it the first time. Can you define it?

Bob: The Android Meme are the extensions of the machines by the machines. Whereas the first phase, all technologies are extensions of our senses, inner and outer faculties. And then, the final extension is the extension of the planet, which is a satellite or a rocket ship or space station that you live inside of. It’s like an extension of the terrestrial environment. It’s artificial, and you’re living off the terrestrial environment in a manmade, human-made terrestrial environment, and that’s the satellite, that’s the final extension. Then these things that were extended – all of the machines started talking to each other in the digital phase, and that’s the “Android Meme”. Where the machines talk and talk and talk and extend within each other and they eventually make themselves, “holeopathic”. Which is very tiny and all-encompassing - a hologram and homeopathic levels and they go inside us, and they become totally invisible, and the little kids think they’re Gods at the age of 4 with their web 2.0 technologies.

Caller: OK, so let’s go back. Android Meme is machines…

Bob: Extending machines, not the extension of our senses. The first phase is: the machines are the extension of our senses.

Caller: OK, give me some examples of machines extending machines.

Bob: You begin with mainframe computers in the ’60s.

Caller: Uh huh!

Bob: And then that gradually gets shrunk and miniaturized and…

iON: Uh-uh! I got! Uh-uh! Bob, we got this. It’s answering machines that respond back.

Bob: Yes, with the dialog between machines.

iON: Automatic replies on an email.

Bob: Yeah, there’s an automatic dialog in the machinic. So, whatever this digital process that went from those ridiculous computers in the ’60s with the reels. Do you remember seeing them in bank buildings?

Caller: Yeah!

Bob: And now, I can look at my phone here, and I’ve got everything in it. There’s a lot of miniaturization that went on there - you know, condensation - that process was the holeopathic growth of the Android Meme. The Android Meme was to make itself more and more invisible and make you feel more and more powerful. That’s the seduction of the Android Meme.

Caller: I want to be clear. So, the machines extending machines is just, the machines getting smaller?

iON: No, not smaller. Not smaller, it’s becoming autonomous. The machines become autonomous.

Bob: Yes, the machines are autonomous. They take on a life of their own.

iON: Bigness or smallness is relative.

Bob: Yep!

Caller: OK, give me an example of a machine being autonomous.

Bob: Your VCR recording movies in the ’80s.

iON: No! No! OK! A DVR - a DVR that automatically knows what you watch. Voice commands on your phone that learns how you speak and recognizes your voice above all others.

Caller: But - but, but I had to tell the DVR to record the stuff. It just didn’t do it on its own.

iON: But see, we’re not saying you’re eliminated from it. Otherwise, you don’t need the machine, but let’s say a “Pacemaker”. You don’t have to tell a Pacemaker to work.

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