17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Lou Poppler wrote:
Cypherpunks write memes!
I like this. Writing effective program code -- computer instructions -- is important, but so is writing effective language code. Language is essentially another kind of "code" with its own set of interpreters etc. So quite possibly the Horsemen "meme," a hardy, propogating viral code, could be rendered useless when the right antiviral meme is introduced to the datasphere. William S. Burroughs has already outlined language hacking details in what I consider to be a seminal proto-cypherpunk text, _The Electronic Revolution_. Long out of print, but online at http://www.hyperreal.com/wsb/elect-rev.html. m Michael Stutz http://dsl.org/m/