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The race of the future is a theoretical composite race which will result from the ongoing racial admixture. [1] Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1925 in Practical Idealism predicted: "The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice.
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The 1960 film named him H. George Wells, although he was only called George in dialogue. In the 1978 telefilm version of the story, the Time Traveller (this time a modern-day American) is named Dr. Neil Perry. H.G. Wells' great-grandson, Simon Wells, directed a 2002 remake where the Time Traveller's name is Alexander Hartdegen.
In the serial Timelash episodes of the twenty-second season of Doctor Who, [12] the Sixth Doctor takes H. G. Wells into the future where they encounter an underground-dwelling, reptilian species called the Morlox (a homophone of "Morlocks"). The Borad, an evil ruler, accidentally becomes half-Morlox before the episode.
A futurist and "visionary", Wells foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television, and something resembling the World Wide Web. [5] Asserting that "Wells's visions of the future remain unsurpassed", John Higgs, author of Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, states that ...
George Mann noted that the common themes in far future works are those of "entropy and dissolution". [3] Future of human evolution is considered a classic theme, harkening to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and its division of the human race into two subspecies, the Eloi and the Morlocks. Many later works build on this idea, exploring futures in ...
[5]: 558 The difference between "global brain" and "world brain" is that the latter, as envisaged by Wells, is centrally controlled, [5] while the former is fully decentralised and self-organizing. In 2001, Doug Schuler, a professor at Evergreen State University , proposed a worldwide civic intelligence network as the fulfillment of Wells's ...