Memetic Horizon

Some say that those who put out the most information in a world of high bandwith will set the memetic foundations for humanity until the next age. Now, you should be skeptical when someone uses the term 'age' in that fashion, but I think there is something to it.

First off, I don't want to really scare you and use 'Singularity', and definitely not 'SINGULARITY', not only because it is crude and pedestrian but because this is a blog about memes not pixie dust nanotech. So in that light 'age' almost seems palatable. Again, the idea is that when people are inundated by a ubiquitous internet it will be those founding memes that define the aesthetics until something big and new comes and changes everything, thus a new age.

The observant reader would then ask, "is this why you have the same exact blog on blogspot.com and livejournal.com?", though that would be cool if true, it is not. Blogspot clearly gives much more control on context, LiveJournal gives the RSS challenged a convenient way of keeping abreast my memetic musings.

Currently we have Google, with its minimalist, primary color style that makes you feel they are doing it all for free, Yahoo!, who is all about Stuff! and STUFF! and Amazon inviting your opinion on their jungle of discounted retail goodies. Sure there are tons in the secondary and tertiary tiers, but these three alone have so far defined what the background will look like for sometime. The content is the space we are struggling to fill with our memes.

Weblogs, whether they be text, audio or video, have made a large impact and probably will continue to do so since it is a format and not heavily dependent on a certain technology. Something that started with self-absorbed technophiles spread into looking glasses on specialties and professions, creating a sub-media and now has been picked up by many companies wanting to give the websurfing demographic of their customers as much as they can take.

This is nothing short of the will of the ego imposing it-self on the only world valuable to modern humanity. Our race is to pampered to allow factors to be imposed that would cause genetic evolution. Urban homo sapiens have far lower births per capita then recent history, spreading memes is our legacy. The current infosphere is the most competitive environment for memes to date and those that succeed now will be in place when all the noise gets filtered and it hits a plateau.