Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses?

2008-05-05 Thread Harry Pollard
, April 27, 2008 4:35 PM To: Ed Weick Cc: futurework; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses? I am wondering how many people within range of this have read Jared Diamond's Collapse; how civilizations choose to succeed or fail. There are plenty of examples of how

Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses?

2008-04-28 Thread Ed Weick
7:34 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses? I am wondering how many people within range of this have read Jared Diamond's Collapse; how civilizations choose to succeed or fail. There are plenty of examples of how societies chose to survive. Usually it was by eliminating

Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses?

2008-04-28 Thread Mary Bedard
Since my job has just been terminated, perhaps I can catch up on the discussion here. I'm pasting a posting from the Community Gardens list, wherein one person is suggesting that we appeal to Bill Moyers to provide a public forum for electoral candidates to speak to the issue of urban farming,

Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses?

2008-04-27 Thread tar
Oh, dear. I got the exact opposite impression about Tuchman's mirror when I read that book. I thought the 1300s were a time of coming out of a stagnant social order into the modern age, with a kick from the black death. What happened with the famines and epidemics was that Europe's

Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses?

2008-04-27 Thread Ed Weick
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; futurework [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses? Oh, dear. I got the exact opposite impression about Tuchman's mirror when I read that book. I thought the 1300s were a time of coming out

Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses?

2008-04-27 Thread tar
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] From memes to viruses? Oh, dear. I got the exact opposite impression about Tuchman's mirror when I read that book. I thought the 1300s were a time of coming out of a stagnant social order into the modern age