memetics

<philosophy>

/me-met'iks/ The study of memes.

As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.

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Last updated: 2000-01-09

Nearby terms:

meme plague ♦ memetic algorithm ♦ memetics ♦ Memex ♦ memo function ♦ memoisation

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