From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 06:01:03 MST
"Don Klemencic" <klemencc@sgi.net> writes:
> H. G. Wells had to be at least a great proto-extropian. He didn't talk of
> personal immortality, but perhaps he lived at too early a time for that. But
> most of the other ideas are there. I wonder how many people he influenced?
Quite a few. He is also regarded as a bit of the father of future
studies, due to both his science fiction, extrapolations in
_Anticipations_ and _The Discovery of the Future_, where he called for
a systematic study of the future.
See http://www.wnrf.org/memorial/hgwells.htm for a brief overview.
We might disagree with many of Wells' views, but that doesn't diminish
his stature as a great writer and influential thinker.
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