As physicist Brandon Carter has commented in Stephen Hawkings's A Brief History of Time: A Reader's Companion: "Things changed dramatically when John Wheeler invented the term. Take the "black hole" meme, for instance. When a meme catches on, it may crystallize whole schools of thought. And an infectious idea (call it a "viral meme") may leap from mind to mind, much as viruses leap from body to body. And it's time for net.dwellers to make a conscious effort to control the kinds of memes they create or circulate.Ī "meme," of course, is an idea that functions in a mind the same way a gene or virus functions in the body. Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change. It was the kind of thing that made you wonder how debates had ever occurred without having that handy rhetorical hammer. The Nazi-comparison meme, I'd decided, had gotten out of hand - in countless Usenet newsgroups, in many conferences on the Well, and on every BBS that I frequented, the labeling of posters or their ideas as "similar to the Nazis" or "Hitler-like" was a recurrent and often predictable event. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.It was back in 1990 that I set out on a project in memetic engineering. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account The company’s description notes that the series is “an unauthorized and no-holds-barred look at the life of Mike Tyson,” adding that it’s “one wild ride.” Yet Tyson doesn’t really have much a recourse in terms of “Mike” since scripted series of famous people’s lives are often produced without their permission or input. For example, many of the former Los Angeles Lakers earlier this year were not happy with their portrayals in HBO’s drama series “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.” Executive and former Laker, Jerry West, went as far as to demand a retraction. ![]() “Mike” is an eight-episode limited series, which “explores the tumultuous ups and downs of Tyson’s boxing career and personal life - from being a beloved global athlete to a pariah and back again,” according to Hulu.ĭramatizations have rankled their subjects before, so Tyson’s complaints - while stern - are not new. Hulu had no comment regarding Tyson’s reaction. I’ll never forget what he did for me just like I’ll never forget what Hulu stole from me.” ![]() “He turned it down because he honors friendship and treating people with dignity. “Hulu tried to desperately pay my brother millions without offering me a dollar to promote their slave master take over story about my life,” he said on Instagram.
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