Come for the incredibly lucid conversation on cybernetics, stay for the humor. >> Bateson: Yes, yes. All cybernetic entities are displaced small boys. Mead:

Come for the incredibly lucid conversation on cybernetics, stay for the humor. >> Bateson: Yes, yes. All cybernetic entities are displaced small boys. Mead: Displaced small what? B: Boys. They’re jacks. You know what a jack is? A jack is an instrument to displace a small boy. A boot jack is a thing for pulling off boots ’cause you haven’t a small boy to pull it off for you. M: I’ll remember that next time. This is an English joke that no one will understand >>