Proper Names and Popular Culture
- Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows code-named "Monad"
- Xmonad, a window manager for the X Window System
- John Monad, title character of the television series John from Cincinnati
- Monad Proxy, a character in the anime series Ergo Proxy
- In the novel The World Inside by Robert Silverberg, almost a hundred billion humans live in megastructure skyscrapers called monads
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