memetics
/me-met'iks/ The study of {memes}. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and
speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards 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)