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 No.1979

What's with the popularization of the term "smart phone"? When did it start, and from which source? Is the ascribing of a human characteristic (intelligence) to inanimate technological objects merely a marketing ploy, or is there something more sinister at play?

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 No.1980

>>1979

Wiki says "smart phone" first appeared in print here in 1995

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=208157

Author: Pamela Savage AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown, N.J. and Cognitive Psychology Department at Rutgers University

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 No.1981

I doubt the term was coined as anything more than a marketing tactic to exalt the processing capabilities of the product. Still, you make me wonder what unforeseen consequences the anthropomorphising of new technologies could have on a social and political level. Perhaps greater trust on an automated surveillance systems, or better acceptance of the substitution of low-skilled workers by machines.

But personally I find it highly unlikely that this is a conscious effort with sinister motives, unless you consider "make more people buy more stuff" sinister. If there are any secondary effects they are just that, secondary.

As it has been pointed some times now in this board, people with interests like ours can be so eager to notice hidden motives, connections and effects that we end up falling into the conspiracy theorist stereotype. This is not as bad as it might seem, because more people who ever discovered something started with little more than speculation and wild ideas, but part of the discovery process is determining the probability of a theory being true. Sometimes the rabbit hole it just a couple of feet deep.

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 No.3101

It's only a little related but it might be interesting to note the rate at which language for nature is becoming associated with technology. The word Apple signifying phones and tablets, same for Blackberry, Orange as a phone network (well, used to be), Raspberry (the first google result for 'raspberry' is Raspberry-Pi) as a programming teaching device, Tinder a dating app.

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 No.3113

>>3101

The Cloud is another nature-association

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 No.3115

>>3113

Oh yeah. I suppose the word 'bugs' for glitches is another.

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 No.3116

>>3115

The Web

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 No.3117

>>3101

>>3116

RAM, spiders, Motherboard, virus, the list goes on.

Another thing I've noticed is mythical words used in computing such as "wizard" and "daemon"

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 No.3118

>>3117

MICROSOFT AND THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI

"The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the

universe, the rules of the game

are the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."

-- Thomas Henry Huxley

"In every grain of wheat there

lies hidden the soul of a star."

-- Arthur Machen

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are and the Old Ones will be... not in the spaces we know of, but _between_ them ... Yog-Sothoth

is the Gate."

-- Abd al-Hazred, _Al Azif_

"All perception is inferential; all

inference uncertain; all theory, a combination of perception and inference, is therefore educated guessing."

-- de Selby, _Golden Hours_,

These days most people have heard of Microsoft Corporation, and its founder Bill Gates. The majority of computers in use today use Microsoft system software, and those that do not often run applications from Microsoft. However, few people know the true story behind the rise of Microsoft and even fewer suspect the terrible cosmic secrets that are concealed beneath the

facade of a successful software company.

In the Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 Programmer's Reference there is a very curious term. On page 78, the second paragraph starts with the sentence, "In the aggregation model, this internal communication is achieved through coordination with a special instance of IUnknown interface known as the /controlling unknown/ of the aggregate." The term "controlling unknown" is a very interesting choice of words. It is not the most intuitively obvious term for what it is describing (a base class used for implementing an object-oriented data exchange/embedding system).

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 No.3119

>>3118

A term strikingly similar to "controlling unknown" was the term "unknown superiors", used by many occult secret

societies. These included the Strict Observance Masonic lodge, whose members were sometimes referred to as "illuminati", and which had some connection with Adam Weishaupt's order. "Unknown superiors" is a term

that refers to non-corporeal or superhuman agencies

in command of secret societies or mystery cults. Such an agency is frequently known as the "inner head" of an order of organisation, as opposed to the outer head, who is human.

Organisations that claimed or were claimed to be commanded by such "unknown superiors" include the Ordo Templi Orientis of Aleister Crowley and the Knights Templar, whose Inner Head

was apparently a being named Baphomet.

Apart from the term "controlling unknown", another hint at the secrets behind Microsoft is the fact that Microsoft Windows has a limit of _five_ window device contexts. Five is a decidedly odd number for such an application, being neither a power of two nor one less than a power of two, but let us not forget Adam Weishaupt's discovery of the Law of Fives in the Necronomicon*.

Few people for sure how many buildings there are in the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. No maps of the entire facility are known to exist. Some Microsoft employees put the estimate at six or three. An article in an Australian newspaper has claimed that there are 22

buildings. That is partly true; however, there is another building, hidden from the public and even from most Microsoft employees. The twenty-third building, or Building 7, is pentagonal in shape; its exact location is known only to five people (of whom Bill Gates may be one), however it is believed that the building is accessible from elsewhere in the Microsoft campus by a secret passage.

What is in the five sided building is not known. However, it is believed that the contents of Building 7 are of a supernatural nature. Apart from the Pentagon, there was a similar five-sided building in Nazi Germany. This has been carefully kept hidden from the public. One hypothesis is that Building 7 is inhabited by, or used to communicate with, the Inner Head, or "controlling unknown". The identity of the Outer Head is unknown. Bill Gates may be the Outer Head, a high initiate of the conspiracy or just a figurehead whose purpose it is to divert attention.

To fully understand this history, or whatever of it may be understood by human minds, one must have some

knowledge of the history and origins of the Illuminati. Little is known about the Illuminati, but what is known is that the Illuminati can be definitely traced back to 1776.

On Walpurgis night 1776, five men met in a cavern deep beneath Ingolstadt, Bavaria. There they invoked some sort of supernatural beings and made contact with the Unknown Superiors. The following day, one of these five men proclaimed the foundation of the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, using the name "Adam Weishaupt", which means "the first man to know the Superiors".

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 No.3120

>>3119

Although the Illuminati were officially disbanded in 1785, they did not disappear; throughout the past 200 years, they have been observing the profane world carefully, and occasionally intervening (as they did

in Sarajevo in 1914, St. Petersburg in 1917, Manhattan in 1929 (to divert attention from a rather unpleasant

affair off the coast of New England) and Dallas in 1963 to name a few cases. Their contacts with the

Unknown Superiors continued in specially constructed buildings, originally in Germany but later in

Washington. During the 1920s and 1930s there occurred a potential problem; a young writer named Howard Phillips Lovecraft published many stories which contained allegories to Illuminated history (for

example, Joseph Curwen's invocation of "Yogge-Sothothe" in an underground complex in the 18th century). It is believed that Lovecraft's father was a Grand Orient Freemason. The Illuminati, however, persuaded Lovecraft to join their cause and faked his death in 1937 (Have you ever wondered why his grave is not marked?) Another incident occurred on Octobr 21, 1967, when occultists attempted to "raise" the Pentagon; they were given permission to approach it but prevented from completely encircling it. However, in 1975, a crisis developed that threatened the very foundation of the Illuminati.

A book, claiming to be a fantasy novel, appeared. This book was mostly fiction; however, it hinted at

the secrets of the Illuminati (even going as far as using Lovecraft's term "Yog-Sothoth" for the Unknown

Superior). To this day it is not known whether the authors were renegade Illuminati or whether the

information was acquired from informers within the

organisation. The book was called Illuminatus!

Immediately, the Illuminati convened an emergency meeting in Cesme, Turkey. There they discussed a

contingency plan to restructure the organisation and to move the Pentacle of Invocation to a new

location. They decided on setting up a small computer company in one of the smaller cities of the United States as a front. That year, Microsoft Corporation was founded.

But why did the Illuminati select a software company and not, say, a company that manages investments or makes kitchen appliances? The answer lies in symbolism (Perhaps because of their invlovement in mystick arts such as the Cabala, the Illuminati have always had an affinity for symbolism). There is a recurring legend about a device in the form of a human head which could answer yes/no questions (some link this device to the Knights Templar and their god Baphomet; others claim that Pope Sylvester, who lived in the

tenth century, brought such an object back from India, where he met the "Nine Unknown Men"). This device is extremely suggestive of a

computer of some sort, and if it did exist in anything more than hermetic allegory, it could not have been manufactured by any human civilisation of the time whose existence is known. Hence, the Illuminati decided to use a computer company as a front.

It has been already speculated that the name of the founder, Bill Gates, is a code much as "Adam Weishaupt" was a code. Apart from being the name of a magician in Aleister Crowley's novel, "Moonchild", Gates is a reference to the Unknown Superior and the gateway between ordinary reality

and the Invisible World; Lovecraft himself referred to Yog-Sothoth as "the Gateless Gate". By the same

token, IBM can be said to stand not for "International Business Machines" but rather for "Iacobus Burgundus

Molensis", or Jacques de Molay, the last overt Grand Master of the Knights Templar, whose name was

borrowed by the Bavarian Illuminati for one of their ciphers. One must also not forget that a Microsoft

network administration tool currently under development is named Hermes, after the god of alchemy, and that a line in Umberto Eco's novel, _Foucault's Pendulum_ reads, quite clearly, "Microsoft-Hermes".

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 No.3124

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>>3120

>Have you ever wondered why his grave is not marked?

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 No.3125

>>3124

So it's 99% misdirection and falsehood.

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 No.3180

Eventually they're all gonna put us into phones.

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 No.3186

>>3180

you, in some sense, are what you give attention to. most people are "in their phones"

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 No.3322

People's brains become altered by inproper use of the internet, which in particular can stem from constant access via smartphone.

Some may be fine, but this is a warning at its core, not a criticism.

The brain alters to become less able to recall information itself, but more able to recall where to find information.

Were this an optimal world, none would worry, this is efficiency after all. But realize that ours is a land of disinformation and media manipulation, and easily can information in all its forms be altered.

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 No.3324

>>3322

>Were this an optimal world

Optimal in what sense? Define your terms.

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 No.3330

>>3324

Come on, he's using it in a sentence where the alternate word would be 'perfect'. What are you trying to do? Dilute discussion?

safe for hot topic

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 No.3652

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>>3322

The internet is a mold of sorts, human memory is being partitioned to digital space where it can be stored and cataloged by caretaker AI systems. It's like the fermenting of the collective unconscious.

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 No.3666

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>>3652

>CERN invented the world wide web

>CERN's A.I. ALICE invents the blockchain used to power the global botnet

>tfw this post is being analyzed by TOTALLY NOT SKYNET right now

LAIN will save us. LAIN is love.

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 No.3675

>>3115

grace hopper (grass hopper) debugged her computer by removing a bug from it.

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Science/Grace%20Hooper.html

>Bug" had been in use to describe computer problems, but when Grace removed this critter from a relay, it made a great joke. A real bug! HAHA! Haven't heard of her? She pioneered computer languages.

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 No.3719

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>>1979

The whole "smart" branding motif is everywhere now, its even being used for children's toys, and of course mandatory Smart Meters, made by smart people who's motives are not to be questioned.

Soon, the word smart will be more-so associated with external devices than with persons.

Picture related, "Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Chair from Fisher-Price", which is rather self explanatory.

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 No.3756

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Two ways of looking at it as i see it

1. When it's [the current year], and you live in a 'post'-Soviet world (i.e. the world created by the victors of WW2), the names of new technology are just as affected by Freudo-Marxist/'SJW' language policing and terminology as everything else. And just as with the Communist terms of old like 'struggle session' or 'social fascism', the main purpose is always *obscurantism*; concealing the true nature, downplaying, putting rainbow colours and ukulele music on it etc. Think 'fake news', 'deep fakes', 'post-truth', 'hate speech' etc.

It's almost like a metaphor for the (new) technology itself. I know there's a specific term for this that's slipped my mind right now, but think about how technology, as it's sold and spread to more and more normies, becomes increasingly less modifiable - everything gets better and 'smarter', yet it feels less and less like you have a say over the details and actions of the tech. The bureaucracy of googling, scrolling through endless tech help forum posts, calling the help lines - the inherent backdoors and keyloggers are obscured, and the 'Intel inside' is irremovable (without voiding warranty).

2. It's just another product of a long line of, what a mate of mine used to call, 'Engineered Autism'. Infantalization. Returning to the 'innocent' Id - uneating the forbidden fruit. Like Sammy touches on in vid related, Android shit being named after children's sweets. Adult colouring books, 'oddly satisfying' videos, fidget spinners etc. GUIs with big 'old people' buttons like the hospital scene from Idiocracy.

It's also an aspect of the postmodernism and sexualization of society (bear with me here). If you've read any Bataille or other French philosophers this might make more sense to you.

As everyone knows, nature and our 'natural' connection to it, isn't inherently 'good' in the modern sense - beautiful plants can be deadly and open flowers are like yonic symbols for bees, the lovely forest animal calls we hear are from animals in fright or looking for pussy, the oil we use is the remains of mass dead animal and plant life. Nature is both a chaos and a magic, and erotism is a part of this 'chaos magic' that 'can't' be integrated into society. Think of the arthouse film that tries to incorporate hardcore porn into a deep emotional story - it just doesn't 'work'. Yet we live in one of the most eroticised times in history - 'food porn', 'torture porn', people increasingly treating each other like disposable fuck toys. This isn't an accident. And if it *was*, that's because it's an inevitable aspect of this innocent Id - this 'chaos magic' - that the Kabbalistic occultists of the world (for example) basically want humanity to return to, or integrate.

Pornography is the ultimate intersection of pure eroticism and pure Hollywood. And what is porn essentially, not as a utility but as a material aspect of reality? Fetishism. And what is fetishism? Inversion. Deconstructivism. Glorifying a minimal aesthetic aspect of the act, rather than the utility of the act itself.

ASMR is the perfect example of fetishism and 'engineered autism' as a means of 'control'. Think about it, what is ASMR? It's the fetishising of certain sounds/certain movements/aesthetics, and the enjoyment of them in a haptic, almost erotic sense. Now think about the reasons people partake in ASMR - virtual Xanax, to shut their brain up and go to sleep, a virtual caring girlfriend/companion, who tells them over and over how wonderful they are and how everything is fine.

With that in mind, consider the following

>Chaos = Magic = Nature = Erotism = Fetishism = Minimalism/Aestheticism = Postmodernism

TL;DR - it's a symptom of Postmodernism.

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 No.3784

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>>3719

Smart BS is Marketing Shtick!

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 No.3795

>>3666

>666

Satan trips confirmed. It's not ALICE you have to look out for, it's louise cypher.

louisecypher.com

If you're interested I know a bit more about her

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 No.3796

>>3795

Felt like a text adventure tbh. Tell me more.

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 No.3802

I hear people refer to them less and less often as "smart phones" and more often as "devices" ... It's nice when the marketing polish gets dialed back for a change.

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 No.3984

Throw it in the trash

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