But I do love the meta idea and I hope that they explore it..
And they would almost certainly enjoy an even greater and more significant advantage in what Romer called "meta-ideas," which are ideas about how to support the production and transmission of other ideas.
But, more important, it brings back the Farrelly brothers, who turn it into a comedy not merely of ideas but, rather, of meta-ideas — the main one being that the kind of comedy they do is still artistically significant and viable.
Even if they don't have the same kind of exclusivity as raw data, these kinds of meta-ideas can keep the positive feedback loop going, and they are more likely to emerge in countries and societies that are already ahead in the data economy.
Remember a few years ago when Sony was trying to sell us on its meta-idea for BluRay while Nintendo was selling us on waggly-wavy Wii? Selling to consumers is like that.
But meta-advertising and oblique advertising have a bad reputation for a reason (Welcome to the social, anyone?) — if your meta-idea is difficult to process, your supposedly insidious advertisement gets knocked out of the target brain by the next shiny object that appears on screen.
It's a very meta-idea, and also very niche to the entrepreneurial community, so the vast majority of people--even within the community--don't think to use these principles on everything.
As a result, the paper finally proposes some operative indications for the design of systems enabling EUD, which capitalize on semiotic engineering and meta-design ideas.
Academia is usually the starting point for many meta-game ideas, from alternate-reality gaming to the supposed benefits that virtual worlds would bring, largely as a result of extrapolations on research.
Some folks will immediately jump toward meta-game-y ideas and start to talk about next-generation Foursquares.
A mix of perfectly-realized media parody, meta-humor, small ideas taken to extremes (the ramifications of the phrase "nothing to write home about," for example) and random weirdness, each episode -- the two I've seen, anyway -- knits itself into something resembling a whole, in the manner of "Monty Python's Flying Circus," as if that all happened now, and in Southern California.
