The Open Conspiracy: What are We to do with Our Lives?
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The Open Conspiracy was published in 1928 by H. G. Wells, when he was 62 years old.The book is in his own words a "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries." It propounds that as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a world "politically, socially and economically unified" is developing among educated and the elites, and this...
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A hundred years ago, novelist H.G. Wells predicted that science would be "king of the world." Titanic's Jack Dawson may take issue with that claim, but he’d have a tough time disputing the compelling influence Wells had on politics, society, and the future that extended far beyond the literary realm. Considering Wells is one the founding fathers of sci-fi (along with Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs) and the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, that's saying something.
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