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Anticipations
H. G. Wells
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Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along socially and how they carry out their business ventures. It then discusses how these elements influence others, such as politics, the world of work, and education. H. G. tried to make clear how the current social order was disintegrating without preparing another to take its place. He then traced the roots of democracy, which in its present state he saw as unworkable. Instead, he proposed a new republic. He also critiqued modern warfare.
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along socially and how they carry out their business ventures. It then discusses how these elements influence others, such as politics, the world of work, and education. H. G. tried to make clear how the current social order was disintegrating without preparing another to take its place. He then traced the roots of democracy, which in its present state he saw as unworkable. Instead, he proposed a new republic. He also critiqued modern warfare.
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I had a hard time sticking w/ this one, w/ its long dense paragraphs & ponderous arguments. Written in 1901, the book is a collection of prognostications for the 20th century by a great writer & teacher. Wells gets a lot of things right. He's expecting a single world-wide state, w/ one language, one
Nostradamus ain’t got nothing on HG
Around the turn of the century, 1901 a famous Sci-fi writer that is well known for predicting the future applies his trade. Instead of taking the word of experts on HG, we get his speculations firsthand.
The book starts innocuously by describing how by turning a "st
H. G. Wells’ “Anticipations is, by his own admission, a Trojan horse. He says so in the last of the nine essays that comprise his prediction of the logical progression of intellectual development from 1901 to the year 2000, titled: Locomotion; Cities; Social Elements; Social Reactions; Democracy; Wa
A very interesting book by H.G.Wells.
He got quite a lot right,but also way off the mark regarding other things.
Certainly he predicted in a round about way the possible ending of traditional style shopping,ie the High Street, to be replaced by goods being delivered to your door the same or next day(s
This was Wells’ second, I believe, book of non-fiction, after a decade of writing ground-breaking science fiction stories. Here, writing at the dawn of the twentieth century, he turns to an opinionated discussion of what he sees coming for the next century. Most of the book seems as if he was today
Even though Wells has other well known books, this book had good points, but not well written.
This book should not have been this long. The author was not successful with this book. In my opinion, this book is a waste of paper.
Here's why:
First, the text is extremely boring and repetitive and someti
incredibly interesting book! quiet hard to read though (for someone from holland)
He got a lot of it wrong but shockingly what he did get right was very accurate.
A good read.