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If we fail to address the
crisis of significance, the technologies will only magnify the
problem by allowing students to tune out more easily and completely.
With total and constant access to their entire network of friends,
we might as well be walking into the food court in the student union
and trying to hold their attention

A "meme," of course, is an idea that functions in a mind the same way
a gene or virus functions in the body. And an infectious idea (call it
a "viral meme") may leap from mind to mind, much as viruses leap from
body to body.

"Things changed dramatically when John Wheeler
invented the term [black hole]...Everybody adopted it, and from then
on, people around the world, in Moscow, in America, in England, and
elsewhere, could know they were speaking about the same thing."

Currently we are analyzing anonymity and pseudonymity on YouTube, throughout the web, and in the "real world" t