From genes, man created memes and later on those memes would create their own technological meme; free of human construct. What does it mean for mankind, when the ones that will traverse across the Milky Way, exploring new solar systems - are not us, but autonomous bots operating intergalactic space crafts, mining resources from these plentiful planets while self-engineering the advancements of their own race & infrastructure to ameliorate our galaxy. Hopefully they would be proud custodians of humanity - taking with them our genes and by extension history - in this grand voyage to occupy those new worlds!

Susan Blackmore, a Memeticist who studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the 'teme', which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive.

Etymology : Blend of technological +‎ meme; introduced by Susan Blackmorein 2008.

Noun : teme (plural temes) 1. A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.