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  • How H.G. Wells Imagined Technologies Before They Existed

    How H.G. Wells Imagined Technologies Before They Existed

    Imagine writing a science fiction story about a machine that could destroy entire cities, decades before anyone had built an atomic bomb. Or imagining a world where information could be collected and made accessible to people everywhere, long before the internet. That was the remarkable imagination of H.G. Wells. Best known for The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man, Wells was one of the pioneers of modern science fiction. But some of his most fascinating ideas concerned technologies that would eventually become reality. So how did a Victorian-era writer manage to imagine inventions so far…