Special edition of The Edge. Question from Danny Hillis with responses from the great and the good at The Edge.
“Perhaps better would be that we might need separation of ideas/memes/cultures long enough to test them ” and then recombine the parts we like best.” George Church
Reinforces the issue of the speed of communication …. no gap between too soon to know and too late to do anything about it, again. And this memetic view is directly analogous to genetic evolution. It can’t be all tooth and claw, there needs to be separation from threats and competition, and nurturing too.