The Open Conspiracy: H.G. Wells on World Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275970260)

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.

Author: W. Warren Wagar
ISBN-10: 0275970264
ISBN-13: 9780275970260
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2001
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 138