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 ( Read more... )

As though H.G. Wells weren't brilliant enough for predicting/advocating things like feminism and air conditioning and portable television sets and video recordings, et cetera, all in the 19th century, check this shit out.

I'm reading his book The Conquest of Time (1940) {EDIT: A Non-Fiction Book} right now, and dig this passage:

He can contrive ( Read more... )