Corey A Cook
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« on: 2005-08-22 20:18:24 » |
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I would like to suggest two books for the reading list. They are both by Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for the New Yorker.
The first is called The Tipping Point and uses the infection metaphore to describe cultural changes. The other is called Blink (The Power of Thinking Without Thinking) and describes some of the techniques used to program ourselves to be able to react correctly and quickly in a variety or situations.
Neither book ever uses the word meme, and Darwin is only mentioned in passing, but together they lay out some ideal ways of describing this thing that we talk about every six months or so.
CA Cook cookcorey@yahoo.com
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