H.G. Wells was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most original and creative thinkers of the 20th century, and retains to this day a position of considerable importance in the history of ideas. In 1928 when he wrote this cry for a new age of worldwide knowledge networking, there was no Internet. Yet Wells was already convinced that if only thinking people across the planet could somehow pull together and pool their expertise, energy, and insights into sort of cerebrum for humanity, then the world would be a saner, safer, better, fairer place. Anyone aware of how the Internet already reflects both the vices and the virtues of society and wonders how a world-renowned visionary like H.G. Wells envisaged knowledge networking as working in practice will enjoy this book. It is a hymn to the practical possibilities of world group action.
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"Probably the most important new contribution to an understanding of Wells's political thought published since [the author's] own H.G. Wells and the World State appeared in 1961 ... [a] unique and valuable contribution to Wellsian thought ... This volume, and indeed all Wagar's work, is an essnetial read for an understanding of Wells's political vision."-The Wellsian
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A new edition of a classic--and imaginative--work of global theory, that takes on a new resonance in our post-modern world.
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For anyone who follows the NWO events in history, this is a great read. When will there be a new world order and who will be at the top when it forms? Is the current NWO forming in the open, by consent, or by force? Is one or the other even possible?
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The small book you hold in your hands may be the most important book written in the 20th century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Open Conspirator, The Outline of History, United States, League of Nations, The Time Machine, The Science of Life, World War Two, Happiness of Mankind, Provinder Island, United Nations, Short History of the Future, University of Chicago Press, World Republic, The World Set Free, World Brain, Year of Prophesying, Academic Press, Adamantine Press, End of Its Tether, God the Invisible King, Leo Szilard, Peace Report, The First Futurist, The Holy Terror New!
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world commonweal, open conspiracy, war that will end war, world directorate, world integration, modern utopia, world party Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Open Conspirator, The Outline of History, United States, League of Nations, The Time Machine, The Science of Life, World War Two, Happiness of Mankind, Provinder Island, United Nations, Short History of the Future, University of Chicago Press, World Republic, The World Set Free, World Brain, Year of Prophesying, Academic Press, Adamantine Press, End of Its Tether, God the Invisible King, Leo Szilard, Peace Report, The First Futurist, The Holy Terror New!
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- The Open Conspiracy by H. G. Wells on 36 pages
- Outline of History (2 Volume Set) by H. G. Wells on 10 pages
- Things to Come (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) by H. G. Wells on 8 pages
- The Shape of Things to Come (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells on 7 pages
- The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells on 5 pages
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