From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 12:00:16 MST
Try re-reading the passage several times. It is an empty can, which has
a logo of a wavy ribbon. The meme is the message used to market the
product, which is identified with the logo. THe product is simply
sugared water with phosophor compound based flavoring. It does require
some intelligence to figure out, but its a rather funny passage, much
like one I've heard about future archaeologists digging up auto hood
ornaments and deducing that our society worships many different gods,
who go by the names of 'Ford', 'Chrysler', 'Buick', 'Mercedes', 'Volvo',
etc... and that each individual adult, when they turn 16, adopts a
particular god as their personal guide in the world....
"G.P." wrote:
>
> This is very interesting, how do you reach this conclusion?
>
> At Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:38:55 +0100 (MET), Eugene Leitl wrote
> >
> >Um, it was coke can.
> >
> >On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, G.P. wrote:
> >
> >> I believe a Replicator is a nanohardware based version of the same
> >> thing that is called "outlook" later in the book, ...
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