Tanaka (computer architecture, Hokkaido U.) believes that the decade of 2000 will be characterized by the marketing of memes, cultural counterparts of biological genes invented by Richard Dawkins, through meme media, which will allow people to free memes from the World Wide Web and its browsers and re-edit and redistribute them. He explores such media from perspectives of the potential for enabling technology, software architecture, and applications. His focus is on meme pool and meme market architecture for re-editing and redistributing memes without violating competitive business activities. Co-published with IEEE Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book provides an integrated view of the five kinds of enabling technologies in terms of knowledge media architectures: multimedia and hypermedia, object-oriented GUI and visual programming, reusable component software and component integration, network publishing and electronic commerce, and object-oriented and multimedia databases. Among many books on multimedia and hypermedia, few address knowledge. Of those that do, none focus on media for the editing, distribution, and management of knowledge the way this book does. It is written based on the hypothesis that knowledge media work as genes, with their network publishing repository, working as a gene pool to accelerate the evolution of knowledge shared in our societies.
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