![]() I’m wrapping my time at #legalweek2023 and still buzzing from the energy, breadth and dynamism of the event. I asked ChatGPT how to make a 3 hour panel discussion fun, and it shared some seasoned wisdom: engage the audience, use #humor, bring in #diverseperspectives, break it up, use #visuals, and last but likely most certain to set up for success, “bring food and refreshments”□ The 1961 feature-film adaption of “Master of the World,” starring Vincent Price as Robur and Charles Bronson as the secret agent trying to stop him, is silly but enjoyable. The Terror is a combination car/submarine/speedboat/airplane. A sequel to the 1886 novel “Robur the Conqueror,” the novel begins with the villain Robur operating his new technological scourge, The Terror, from his secret mountain base near Morganton, NC. Second, one of the last Verne novels published during his lifetime, “Master of the World” (1904), was largely set in my home state of North Carolina. Jules Verne served on the city council of Amiens for 15 years, immersing himself in a variety of local issues and infrastructure improvements. First, after becoming an internationally famous author, he decided to enter politics. Now let me tell you two things you may not know about Verne. As Ray Bradbury put it, “We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne.” Beyond the obvious - the millions of people who have read tales such as “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864), “From the Earth to the Moon” (1865), “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas” (1870), “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1872), and “The Mysterious Island” (1875) or watched popular film adaptations of them - Verne’s prodigious output influenced countless other writers and helped shape the development of such businesses as literary magazines, pulp magazines, mass-market novels, and, later, comic books. His gigantic influence on the development of speculative fiction and pop culture is undeniable. On this date in 1905, Jules Gabriel Verne passed away in Amiens, France.
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