Re: Significance of "As We May Think"

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 21:26:07 BST

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    On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 12:33 , Philip Jonkers wrote:

    > `Meme' as in `mean' substituted with an `m'. Now add an `x' as
    > in X-men
    > and you get `meam-X'. There you go....

    Right- so it was 'meem-ecks' as I thought. And thus, 'meme'
    appeared for the first time, (1945, or did I miss something?),
    certainly phonetically, and certainly related to cultural
    information, although more mechanistically.

    I had toyed with 'mem-ecks' but it didn't sound right.

    - Wade

    PS- check out
    http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0464.html
    for some other things about thinking....

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