XYplorer Beta Club

A prehistoric promotion blurb about XYplorer which I removed from all original sources on 2006-05-25 is still popping up in countless online places on every new release, also today: "XYplorer is an Advanced File System Explorer targeting everybody who..." Google finds almost 1 million pages replicating this stone age piece of information. How long will it survive? We need a digital Darwin, a new evolution theory of information history. Which info bits survive and replicate, which will perish? Which will evolve (mutations / copy errors) to stronger, fitter texts, better adapt to ever changing semantic / technological environments? Etc. And I personally would like to learn: How can I extinguish a particular species of information? How to break into a recursive copy cycle and change the DNA? How to be the informational gamma ray that alters the sequence?

I'm afraid if you knew how to, you could earn much more money than with XY

I suppose in this case, "fitness" is actually "clickiness."

And instead of "random mutations" of the digital code, it's likely to be intentional alterations of meta-data driving the propagation. Automated data bots that have been running unchecked for too long.

kunkel321 wrote:I suppose in this case, "fitness" is actually "clickiness."

And instead of "random mutations" of the digital code, it's likely to be intentional alterations of meta-data driving the propagation. Automated data bots that have been running unchecked for too long.

It's likely that ever-growing parts of the web content will be stale information generated by bots through copying and resampling. Informational replicants, in Blade Runner terminology. (Blade Runner is becoming a historical movie...)

Whatever, when you visit a software page to download a piece of software that was published today, there is no way to tell if the information text is actual and not many years old and completely outdated. The web is a mountain of sediments and using it needs the mindframe of an archeologist. The Indiana Jones approach to surfing...