What does it mean? Should I get my blaster from the top of the closet and make sure it’s operative? Also, Fatty is right. The Monolith was/is not the HAL 9000. Might have influenced it’s behavior in some way, however. Sadly, we cannot ask Dr. Clarke or Stanley Kubrick.
Hmm, it has been out there for years apparently -- I assumed it was just recently installed even more impressive.