Re: Time Machine revised?

On May 3, 6:09 pm, djhe...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
Wells has probably been rolling for a good long time, not so much
because the future didn't turn out to follow his scenario (he
probably had the intelligence to realize there were a lot of
other possibilities), but because the future didn't turn out to
conform to his theories.

Hmm, he was someone who came up from the working class and despite the
"eat the rich" message makes no bones of the fact that the morlocks
have devolved into something inhuman while the upper classes still
retained the core essence of what it means to be human.
In other words he would be happy to see the working class moving up to
the middle class and better.
And while of course he had an ego as colosal as any seen in Victorian
times, me thinks we do him an injustice by thinking he held his ideas
more dear than the ultimate fate of mankind. David Brin crystallized
an interesting concept - the self-preventing prophecy.
See http://www.davidbrin.com/predictions.html


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