Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA28335 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:10:35 +0100 Message-ID: <3B556E0F.9453C76@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:07:59 +0100 From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manchester X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Faking It: The Internet Revolution Has Nothing to Do With the Nasdaq References: <20010717122838.AAA29276@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> <3B5442D6.5A912725@bioinf.man.ac.uk> <20010717170640.B591@ii01.org> <3B55686E.83587815@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
The memetic point I was (perhaps clumsily) making is that if there is a
set of memes from fiction, predating the real existence of a thing (the
web for example), then the head start they get from already existing
means that they'll occupy the new niches, preventing anything from
evolving 'de novo'. Resident's advantage.
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