Why IdeaJungle? Because I believe in what Richard Dawkins first said in The Selfish Gene. He called our ideas "memes" suggesting that they replicate and combine like genes, and also implying that our relationship with memes is similar to our relationship with genes. Just as we live because our genes survived in the past, ideas will live or die based on our survival. We are the arena of their competition.

All of us are just carriers for the spreading contagion of ideas. The pace accelerates. Now that we are bound together in currents of digital words and images a new life is coming into existence. Something completely new, something that is as unpredictable, and as frightening, as the struggles of a butterfly to escape from its cocoon.