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Information Ecologies:
This is an outline of the second book I'm working on. Once I finish Understanding the Information Age, I plan to finish this one.
Introduction
Chapter 1: History of Information Ecologies
Chapter 2: History of Information/Communication
Chapter 3: A Theory of Information Evolution
Chapter 4: How Memes are Transmitted
Chapter 5: Antimemes and Immune Systems
Chapter 6: How Memes are Stored
Chapter 7: How to Store and Delete Memes
Chapter 8: How to Create Effective Memes
Chapter 9: Advanced Transmission and StorageTactics
Chapter 10: Personal Memes
Chapter 11: Corporate Memes
Chapter 12: Societal Memes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Darwinian Evolution and Natural Selection
All life evolved by the differential survival of replicating entities.-Hawking
Competition and Cooperation
Higher life forms cannot develop without cooperation or sufficient diversity.Chapter 1: History of Information Ecologies
Quantum patterns and forces (energy)
Clays, Bubbles, and Crystals
Forming vesicles of amphiphilic molecules
RNA and DNA (DNA probably came later) (Organic Life)
Memes (Information, Culture, Society, Consciousness?)
Memes are more flexible than genes: do not need a complete, identical set to function. Biological evolution is basically finished (at least as far as natural selection is concerned). Also, with the exception of improving our present capabilities, it is unlikely that we will evolve biologically into new forms. We will use our new technologies, most likely, to maintain our present forms. Evolution, therefore, will rely on the next level of life in our worlds; ideas. We must take control of this process on a higher level to advance our speices and civilization.
What impact will this have on societal interactions?
What does this have to do with artificial, Silicon-based life? (Electronic)
Is this the first step to the next level of life?Chapter 2: History of Information/Communication
Information Timeline
Storytelling and Chants
Conversations
Lectures and "education"
AdvertisingChapter 3: A Theory of Information Evolution
Richard Dawkins' Coining of the Word
Other References
Evolution Basics
The types of memes: Technological, Informational, Cultural/Behavioral (Examples of each)Chapter 4: How Memes are Transmitted
All media:
Documents
Events
Products
Television, books, movies, music, news, photos, etc.
Services
Experiences
Conversations, Kiss, Touch, Stories, Humor...
Environments
Technologies
All Senses
Sight
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Information vs. Tecnological vs. Cultural
Access IssuesChapter 5: Antimemes and Immune Systems
How to create anti-memes
How to strengthen your immune system
Proceedures
MetamemesChapter 6: How Memes are Stored
All media
Documents
Memories (Brains)
This is the only framework for active memes, therefore they must be strong and linked to symbols and documents in order to survive with time (legal system and bible, for example).
Products
Rituals
Habits
Environments
Products:
Movies, books, etc.
Paradigms and Conceptual Models
Information vs. Tecnological vs. CulturalChapter 7: How to Store and Delete Memes
Seeking out viruses in your own system
Eraditating, transforming, and modifying themChapter 8: How to Create Effective Memes
Information Design (process)
Informational
Technological
CulturalChapter 9: Advanced Transmission and StorageTactics
Interaction Design
Marketing
Tactics MatrixInfection/Transmission
Personal Comunication Techniques
Tactics and Tools Matrix
Anti-memes/ProcessingInformation technology pioneer Alan Kay says, "We don't have natural defenses against fat, sugar, salt, alcohol, alkaloids -- or media. Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual -- not how to use it but why, when, and for what." (Wired 5/94 p.76)
Tactics to control your meme exposure
Evaluation
Organization
Encoding/Storage"Imagine an alien, Fox once said, who's come here to identify the planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has a look, then chooses. What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged.
The zaibatsus, Fox said, the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The structure is independent of the individual lives that comprise it. Corporation as life form." -William Gibson, Burning Chrome
Infection/Transmission
Internal Communication
External CommunicationMaketing and Evangelism
AdvertisingAnti-memes/Processing
Tactics to control your meme exposure
Organization
Encoding/Storage
Technological MemesBoolean Logic
Binary Code
ASCI
UNICODE
PostScript
TeleScriptSocietal Ecosystems
It seems that the societal information DNA is much more flexible than even personal information DNA because societies can hold together with a certain cohesion without exact sharing of all elements of itts memes-or even agreement! Could this be true of all higher-order systems?
There is no one, single, global societal organism. Instead, there are many different ones that blend, compete, and evolve (many into each other). In order to have a single functioning ecosystem, there must be a shared DNA.
Culture memes affect all information levels.
Societal Competition and Cooperation, Warfare (Informational and other), Religion
Infection/Transmission
Personal Comunication Techniques
Anti-memes/Processing
Tactics to control your meme exposureThese systems have always existed, but we have not recognized them until now (just like dimensions beyond Space/Time). These are powerful systems/concepts (memes)
Good and bad memes.Bibliography
Index
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