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Documentary Lego The name smartMeme is inspired by a vision of grassroots change agents collaboratively creating and unleashing memes designed to challenge assumptions and change destructive stories. The smart implies both effective and networked: memes that are born from and spread through people-powered collaboration. Our movements desperately need smarter memes that encapsulate and popularize stories with the creative power to point us toward a more democratic, just, peaceful, and ecologically sane future Vision -- How You Can Use 'SmartMemes' to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World PM Press By Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning Today let me offer a celebration of Changesurfer Radio , produced and hosted by the technoprogressive bioethicist and sociologist Dr. James Hughes of Hartford College, Connecticut, founder of the Institute For Ethics and Emerging Technologies ( IEET ). Have a listen to cutting-edge ideas from speculative thinkers as