“We believe
the laws of evolution, in which natural selection guarantees the survival of the fit and the extinction of the unfit,
apply in all cases whether living beings,
dead matter or knowledge is concerned. Ideas, chunks of knowledge, can be considered specific entities
that rely on human or other carriers
to multiply, mutate, adapt and survive. The human population and the technology devoted to
communication can likewise be regarded as
a huge ecology populated by ideas, theories or knowledge in general. The Internet has in the most
recent years been becoming an
integral part of this so-called ecology of knowledge…”