[82409] in Cypherpunks
Re: Coding || Politics || Diplomacy (was: Radical Roots)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Stutz)
Tue Jun 24 17:18:55 1997
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:25:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org>
To: Lou Poppler <lwp@mail.msen.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.92.970624130246.17389A-100000@conch.msen.com>
Reply-To: Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org>
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/
