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[benchilada]

Yet another reason H.G. Wells was so fucking awesome. In The Conquest of Time--a rewrite of a previous book of his--published in 1942, he predicted the future, most notably the internet, didn't he?:

"[Man] can contrive urban and suburban roads that will carry him at his ease to air-port, sea-port, or wherever he wants to be--he need not follow

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[monsura]

Wow.

[primavera]

He predicted just about every-goddamn-thing.

[svashtar]

Plus HG Wells is doubly awesome for being played by Alex deLarge himself, Malcolm McDowell!

The man was a freakin' genius. I think he invented the Internet and Al Gore just took credit, that wanky bastard.

[atomic_robo]

Big fan of Mr. Wells m'self, but, well...ahem.

[thomtoffner]

Actually, I suspect that he was just in the right place at the right time, for some time-traveler from the future (who had undoubtedly just viewed an old holo-conversion copy of the Guy Pierce masterpiece film version of The Time Machine) came back and gave him the idea to make a book out of it. Surely this time traveler told H about our present. (his past)

[benchilada]

Yer...fucking...with my head.

GAH! JACK THE RIPPER!