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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(2000-01-09)