> Hype is to the people as religion is. Hype is a
> POWERFUL memetic strategy and all without violating rights.
Unfortunately hype quickly produces "memetic antibodies" - a reaction
always ensues, since by definition hype consists of a lot of rather empty
promises and the results are seldom as good as the hype. So people become
dissatisfied, and turn in the *other* direction, at least for a while.
A typical example is the Internet hype, after the first wave it became
fashionable to be luddite.
Interesting thought: there will be a lot of millennarian groups predicting
the End of the World around the millennium = hype. What will the reaction
be when nothing happens? This might be the right moment to really move
into the open and say "We have an INFINITE future!".
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