Ouch, and the thought of that makes my brain feel like its reverting to
primordial ooze.
- Marc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wade T.Smith [SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 11:08 AM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: RE: virus: TV is Good
>
> >True, but it's most likely the advertising-marketing memeticists that
> >generate the revenue to pay bills.
> >
> >For example, Bill Gates has had very little to do with technology
> >enhancement since the 70's. If there is any genius to be found in
> his
> >persona, it's his assemblage of marketers, advertising and legal
> >counsel.
>
> Not to belittle any of your points, which are good, but ain't we still
>
> talking about product here?
>
> PBS has had a '(PBS)TV is good' campaign for a few years now, and
> certainly Gates' 'assemblage' _is_ his product at this point.
>
> Anyway, my only addition was to mark advertising as a memetic
> technology,
> which I think we agree on totally.
>
> As in the non-corollation between truth and memetic propagation,
> intelligence and marketing success are two disparate entities as
> well....
>
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