The Open Conspiracy - H.G. Wells on World Revolution

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.

List of contents

Critical Introduction by W. Warren Wagar
The First Futurist
What Are We To Do with Our Lives?
The Open Conspiracy Since Wells
Endnotes
The Open Conspiracy-H.G. Wells
Index

About the author

W. WARREN WAGAR is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Binghamton University, and a Vice President of the H.G. Wells Society./e He is the author of several books on Wells.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: W. Warren Wagar, H. G. Wells
• Publisher: Praeger
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780275970260
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97026-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Series: Humanistic Perspectives on Int; Humanistic Perspectives on Int; Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education