TED Talks
Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"
TV-PG
2008 • E83 Jun 4, 2008 21mSusan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive.