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Myths of My Ancestors: ATM — Anon Text Messaging

On. Off.  Changing channels.
Remembering. Forgetting. Re-Membering.
Anon. At another time; later.  In a short time; soon.  Ever and anon; time after time.

Text Messaging.

http://blogs.ala.org/yalsa.php?title=text_messaging&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Text messaging is an amazingly effective way of communicating with others. One can send off a text message about a meeting or with information of import for research. In other words text messaging isn't just for sending quick messages to colleagues and friends. It's a resource for information gathering. Text messaging can prove to be a powerful tool.

Google SMS (short message system) gives users the chance to send a text message to Google computers in order to get answers. A teen can text message Google to find out the definition of a word, basic facts, and even where the closest Starbucks is.

Sending a text message to Google for a definition puts the idea of looking something up in a dictionary into a whole new light. The message goes off and within just a few seconds the answer appears on a cell phone screen. The reader still has to read and understand the definition but she didn't have to flip dictionary pages to find it.

ATM.  Money is congealed energy; make deposits, take withdrawals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine

An automated teller machine or automatic teller machine (ATM) is a computerised telecommunications device that provides a financial institution's customers a method of financial transactions in a public space without the need for a human clerk or bank teller. Security is provided by the customer entering a personal identification number (PIN).

Using an ATM, customers can access their bank accounts in order to make cash withdrawals (or credit card cash advances) and check their account balances. Many ATMs also allow people to deposit cash or checks, transfer money between their bank accounts, pay bills, or purchase goods and services.

An ATM is also known, in English, as Automated Banking Machine, Money machine, Bank Machine (Canada), Cash Machine (New Zealand, UK, Minnesota), Hole-In-The-Wall (New Zealand, Australia, UK) or Cashpoint (New Zealand, UK). Despite the wide usage of the term "ATM Machine", the word "machine" is redundant.

Machine is redundant.  Making an object as a machine does and then some.  Deus ex machina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina

In modern terms the deus ex machina has also come to describe a being, object or event that suddenly appears and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty, where the author has "painted the characters into a box" that they cannot easily be extricated from (e. g., the cavalry coming to the rescue). A classic example of the use of this type of deus ex machina is in Homer's Odyssey.

Past. Future.
Object. Objects. I object.
Present.

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