Memes: Ideas as Viruses

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Memes

What is a meme?

Richard Dawkins: "Viruses of the Mind" Dawkins originated the concept of the "meme" in _The Selfish Gene_ (1975).

David Brin: "The New Meme" Brin is the author of the highly-regarded 1990 sci-fi novel about life in the near future, _Earth_ ("challenging new visions of an incredibly real future: global computer networks that put limitless information at everyone's fingertips, an environment ravaged by the greenhouse effect, a quiet revolution by the politically powerful elderly").