The Shape Of Things to Come
Episode 4 x 09 title and also the title of an HG Wells book.
- The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events…
- The book is dominated by Wells’s belief in a world state as the solution to mankind’s problems.
- Wells successfully predicted the Second World War, although he envisaged it dragging on into the 1960s, being finally ended only by a devastating plague that almost destroys civilisation.
- Eventually, after a century of re-shaping humanity, the dictatorship is overthrown in a completely bloodless coup, the former rulers are sent into a very honourable retirement, and the world state “withers away…”