Re: Darwinian Processes and Memes in Architecture

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 00:29:21 GMT

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    Hi Kenneth Van Oost -

    >Cultural evolution is rightly based upon the differences which causes
    >problems between people, but it will end if you dismiss any conflict
    >between people, styles and ideologies,....

    One has to wonder what sort of things wouldn't end in such idyll.

    I think H. G. Wells and a few other science fiction authors did some
    thought experiments along those lines.

    - Wade

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