Meme media and a world-wide meme pool

Computers are expanding their target of augmentation from individuals to groups, and furthermore from groups to societies. While people in a group share a definite common task goal, people in a society share their knowledge resources and reuse them to produce new ones. The augmentation of societies requires a new type of media that can carry varieties of knowledge resources, replicate themselves, recombine themselves, and be naturally selected by their environment. They may be called meme media since they carry what R. Dawkins called “memed’. The accumulation of memes in a society will form a meme pool, which will work as a gene pool to bring a rapid evolution of knowledge resources shared by this society. We need a world-wide repository of memes, and a good browser to access this repository. This repository works as a marketplace where people can publish memes, browse through them, and reuse some of them. This paper reviews IntelligentPad as a meme media architecture, and proposes two new system architectures that work as marketplace systems for meme media.

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