The Weekly Meme Roundup: A Tale Of Two Internets
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What Is Rule 63 Of The Internet? The Internet Adage About Gender-Bent Fan Art Explained -
Where Are They Now? Here's What Allison Harvard, AKA 'Creepy Chan,' Has Been Up To Since Her Early Internet Fame -
Why Are TikTokers Trying To 'Cancel Out' Their Family Members' Votes? The Viral 'U.S. Election 2024' Trend Explained -
What Does 'Winter Is Coming' Mean? The Viral 'Game Of Thrones' Meme From Ned Stark Explained
![Shout out to wscience fiction influencing real life Atomic Power Burning Man artist turns Lenin statue in Ukraine into Darth Vader (NARA) In 1914, H.G. Wells published a novel, The World Set Free, imagining the emergence of "artificial" atomic energy by 1933, followed by a devastating world war and the eventual emergence of a peaceful global government. Physicist Leo Szilard read the book in 1932, which inspired him to solve the problem of creating a nuclear chain reaction-in 1933. The same book would inspire Szilard to campaign for arms control and the peaceful, international use of nuclear power after World War II. A Fremen from Dune wearing a stillsuit. Credit: DALL-E generated image JULY 15, 2024 BY MATT WILLIAMS Dune-Inspired Stillsuits Could Allow Astronauts to Recycle Their Urine Into Water interaction and "the matrix". In "Burning Chrome" (1982), he coined the term cyberspace, [c][132] referring to the "mass consensual hallucination" of computer networks.[133] Through its use in Neuromancer, the term gained such recognition that it became the de facto term for the World Wide Web during the 1990s. [134] William Gibson @GreatDismal I'm used to people telling me they became computer engineers because of Neuromancer, but look where Count Zero took someone: thespec.com/news-story/963 Gotta be one of my favorite genres](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/884/077/9b5.png "Life Imitates Art")
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