RE: virus: TV is Good

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Wed, 30 Jul 97 07:22:41 -0400

>>Hey look fellow memesters: Television has finally realized the power of
>>*self*propagation*. Using television to sell television.
>
>Yup, ABC's VP of programming is the brother of one of my closest
>friends. I sent him half a dozen copies of Virus of the Mind. They're
>not stupid over there.

I'd always assumed that advertising _is_ the memetic technology of
commerce. And the intelligence of television program producers is an open
question....

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