memetics /me-met'iks/ n. [from {meme}] The study of
memes. As of mid-1994, this is still an extremely informal and
speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least
statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others.
Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like
to see themselves as the architects of the new information
ecologies in which memes live and replicate.