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It reminds me of that scene in Diaspora where a couple of robots found an old coke can in the woods. They freaked out, fearing memetic contagion.
Sounds like a riff on the plot of The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a tribesman goes to return a coke bottle dropped from a passing airplane.
Is this a film or book? The term 'memetic contagion' makes me curious.
A book by greg egan. He's a really good science fiction author. His early stuff anyway.
I've been meaning to read his books for ages! Probably will start with Diaspora.
Diaspora is good. My fave is Permutation City. He also has a nice collection of short stories : Axiomatic.