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The Open Conspiracy H.G. Wells on World Revolution
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W. Warren Wagar, Edited and with a Critical Introduction by
ISBN: 0-275-97539-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97539-5
160 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2001
List Price: $27.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.
Table 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. He is the author of several books on Wells.
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