From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 13:55:15 MST
In a message dated 12/7/00 9:32:37 AM, mlorrey@datamann.com writes:
>Creating a genealogy of the
>birth, parentage, lives, and deaths of various memes, as well as ratings
>of their influence on the economy, as well as current watchfulness for
>new memes bearing on the market should allow one to make better
>predictions about market trends as well as predict dramatic shifts.
Essentially you're proposing a more scientific approach to memetics,
rather than the current advocacy approach. There is some relevant
stuff in things like citation indexes, hype indexes (references in popular
literature), and the internet indexes. Somebody who did some work
relating this to memetics would IMO provide a great service.
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