dung beetles of science

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 10 1999 - 15:12:12 MST


At 12:34 PM 8/12/99 -0800, Robert whimsicated:

>where "memes" become the nutrients. Pity poor Damien or Gina who have
>to sit around waiting for people to come up with new information so they
>can organize and redistribute it.

Aw, I'm crushed.

But wait...

Greg Benford calls us meme-eaters `datavores', and argues that we're a
higher form of critter. What a relief!

And if that isn't convincing (I suspect it's not), I'll have to console
myself with those 14 novels and short story collections sitting on the
shelf or in the pipeline...

Damien Broderick



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:06:02 MST