"century-long dedicated and intensive work by an elite possessing complete control of world education – such a society of intelligent and assertive ""Alphas"" could be made harmonious and functional, with no underclasses under them. Wells loosely adapted the novel for the screenplay of the film ""Things to Come"", produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies, and released in 1936. It also takes elements from Wells's non-fiction book ""The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind"" (1931). The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke and Margaretta Scott. ""H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come"" is"
"five separate sections or ""books"": ""The Shape of Things to Come"" was written as a future history. In late 1933 or early 1934, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's failure to implement the New Deal and revive the US economy and Adolf Hitler's failure to revive the German economy by rearmament. Which causes the worldwide economic crisis to continue for thirty years, concurrently with the war, as described above. Wells predicted a Second World War breaking out with a European conflagration from the flashpoint of a violent clash between Germans and Poles at Danzig. Wells set the date for this as"
"of the future called a ""future history"" that provides a common background for their fiction. Sometimes authors publish a timeline of events in their history, while other times the reader can reconstruct the order of the stories from information in the books. Some published works constitute ""future history"" in a more literal sense—i.e., stories or whole books written in the style of a history book but describing events in the future. Examples include H.G. Wells' ""The Shape of Things to Come"" (1933) - written in the form of a history book published in the year 2106 and in the manner"
"in H.G. Wells' ""The Shape of Things to Come"" (1933). The future world envisioned by Wells includes an ""Encyclopaedic organization which centres upon Barcelona, with seventeen million active workers"" and which is tasked with creating ""the Fundamental Knowledge System which accumulates, sorts, keeps in order and renders available everything that is known"". As pointed out by Wein, this Wells book was at its most well-known and influential in the late 1930's - coinciding with ""the period of incubation"" when the young Asimov became interested in Science Fiction, reading a lot of it and starting to formulate his own ideas. Various"
"hall, and died a few minutes later. The cause of death was given as a cerebral haemorrhage. The barony died with him as he had no children. Lady Hore-Belisha died in July 1991, aged 75. H. G. Wells in ""The Shape of Things to Come"", published in 1934, predicted a Second World War in which Britain would not participate but would vainly try to effect a peaceful compromise. In this vision, Hore-Belisha was mentioned as one of several prominent Britons delivering ""brilliant pacific speeches"" which ""echo throughout Europe"" but fail to end the war. The other would-be peacemakers, in Wells'"
"to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", the first figurative use of the term appeared in the 1902 edition of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" relating to an entry on the chemical analysis of glucose. Another use of the phrase is found in H. G. Wells' 1933 novel ""The Shape of Things to Come"", where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in longhand, both handwritten and typed. Since then, the term has been widely used in other contexts. For example, Theodor W. Hänsch in a 1979 ""Scientific American"" article"
"The Shape of Things The Shape of Things is a 2001 play by American author and film director Neil LaBute and a 2003 American romantic drama film. It premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2001 with Paul Rudd as Adam, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn, Gretchen Mol as Jenny, and Fred Weller as Phillip. The play was directed by LaBute himself. According to the author's instructions, it is to be performed without an interval or a curtain call. Central themes in ""The Shape of Things"" focus on the nature of stoicism, art, psychopathy, intimacy, explorations of love, and people's willingness"
"next morning, 6 June 1968. He was 57, and although he had been in poor health for years, his death was unexpected. He is buried with his parents (his mother outliving him by almost a decade) and siblings at St Martin's Church, Bladon near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. His will was valued for probate at £70,597 (just over £1,000,000 at 2016 prices). H.G. Wells in ""The Shape of Things to Come"", published in 1934, predicted a Second World War in which Britain would not participate but would vainly try to effect a peaceful compromise. In this vision, Randolph was mentioned as one"
"was the French foreign minister 1938-39 who favored abandoning Eastern Europe to Nazi Germany. Taylor's assessment that Beneš was a man of integrity (unlike Bonnet, Antonescu, Beck and Stojadinović) and that he was leading Czechoslovakia in the right direction was widely shared in 1945. In 1933, H. G. Wells wrote ""The Shape of Things to Come"", a prediction of World War II. In Wells' depiction, the war starts in 1940 and drags on until 1950, and Czechoslovakia avoids being occupied by Germany, with Beneš remaining its president throughout the war. Wells assigns to Beneš the role of initiating a ceasefire,"
"the new worldwide state. In the transition time, the old Hammer and Sickle is displayed side by side with the Modern State's Winged Disk. Altogether, of the three competing systems of government - Democracy, Fascism and Communism - only the last would be remembered by Wells' Modern State as having been to some degree a predecessor of itself. ""The Shape of Things to Come"" was published two years after Aldous Huxley's ""Brave New World"". The two share the same basic outline of humanity's future – i.e., a massive war leaves the world in ruins, a self-appointed elite takes over, rebuilds"
"J. Dwight Pentecost John Dwight Pentecost (April 24, 1915 – April 28, 2014) was an American Christian theologian, best known for his book ""Things to Come"". Pentecost was born in Pennsylvania and died in Dallas, Texas. His wife was Dorothy Harrison Pentecost (1915 - 2000). John and Dorothy had two daughters: Jane Pentecost Fenby and Gwendolyn Ann Pentecost Arnold (1954 - 2011). Pentecost was Distinguished Professor of Bible Exposition, Emeritus, at Dallas Theological Seminary, one of only two so honored. He held a B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College (1937), in addition to Th.M. (1941) and Th.D. (1956) degrees from Dallas Theological"
"The Shape of a City The Shape of a City () is a 1985 book by the French writer Julien Gracq. It is a portrait of Nantes, the city where Gracq grew up, in the form of memories, anecdotes, reflections and dreamlike descriptions. The title comes from a quotation by Charles Baudelaire: ""The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart"". An English translation by Ingeborg M. Kohn was published in 2005. In 2007, Thomas McGonigle described the book for ""Los Angeles Times"" as ""a model for how to write about one’s home"
"possible, an opinion he voiced to the British ambassador Eric Phipps in 1935. It was at this time that H.G. Wells wrote his vision of future history, ""The Shape of Things to Come"", in which a ""Prince Manfred of Bavaria"" in the later part of the 20th century was depicted as the leader of a widespread rebellion against the rise of a world government and its unification of the world. Presumably, Wells envisioned that ""Prince Manfred"" to be a descendant of Prince Rupprecht and an heir to Rupprecht's ambitions. Rupprecht was forced into exile in Italy in December 1939 (the"
"the description of the event's alternate outcome. The writer of future history does not have such knowledge, such works being based on speculations and predictions current at the time of writing—which often turn out to be wildly inaccurate. For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in ""The Shape of Things to Come"" a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only"
"much time and energy to wine, women and gambling. However, he was “never mean or ignoble” and was “a proud patriot” who sometimes had “true nobility”, although he was “too proud to court popularity” and too reserved to attract it readily. H. G. Wells, in ""The Shape of Things to Come"", published in 1934, predicted a Second World War in which Britain would not participate but would vainly try to effect a peaceful compromise. In this vision, Duff Cooper was mentioned as one of several prominent Britons delivering ""brilliant pacific speeches"" which ""echo throughout Europe"" but fail to end the"
"The Shape of Time The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things is a short book by George Kubler, published in 1962 by Yale University Press. It presents an approach to historical change which challenges the notion of style by placing the history of objects and images in a larger continuum. Kubler proposes new forms of historical sequencing where objects and images provide solutions to evolving problems. Kubler lays out a perspective where processes of innovation, replication, and mutation are in continuous conversation through time. Kubler begins the chapter by discussing ""The Limitations of Biography"" where he lays"
"Italy, the air power prophet General Giulio Douhet asserted the basic principle of strategic bombing was the offensive, and there was no defence against carpet bombing and poison gas attacks. Douhet's apocalyptic predictions found fertile soil in France, Germany, and the United States, where excerpts from his book ""The Command of the Air"" (1921) were published. These visions of cities laid waste by bombing also gripped the popular imagination and found expression in novels such as Douhet's ""The War of 19--"" (1930) and H.G. Wells's ""The Shape of Things to Come"" (1933) (filmed by Alexander Korda as ""Things to Come"""
"1934 they were leased by Alexander Korda and in 1936 he produced Things to Come, based on ""The Shape of Things to Come"" by H G Wells. Wells wrote the screenplay, Arthur Bliss the music. From 1936 to 1944 the studios were owned by Criterion Film Productions, and afterwards by British Lion. They closed in 1952 and were then used for 20 years by the National Coal Board as a Mining Research Centre. Worton Hall survives and has been acquired by Bovis Homes for conversion into flats. In 1993, part of the building was leased by the Driving Standards Agency"
"in ARTnews (Jan. 1966), all by the American artist Ad Reinhardt. The three texts illustrate aspects of the artist's theory of art"" The Shape of Time The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things is a short book by George Kubler, published in 1962 by Yale University Press. It presents an approach to historical change which challenges the notion of style by placing the history of objects and images in a larger continuum. Kubler proposes new forms of historical sequencing where objects and images provide solutions to evolving problems. Kubler lays out a perspective where processes of innovation,"
"place[.] ... It should be required reading for anyone setting out to describe their home place."" The Shape of a City The Shape of a City () is a 1985 book by the French writer Julien Gracq. It is a portrait of Nantes, the city where Gracq grew up, in the form of memories, anecdotes, reflections and dreamlike descriptions. The title comes from a quotation by Charles Baudelaire: ""The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart"". An English translation by Ingeborg M. Kohn was published in 2005. In 2007, Thomas McGonigle described"
"reversal, the two leads are Amy and Evan. ""The Shape of Things"" is published in an acting edition by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The Shape of Things The Shape of Things is a 2001 play by American author and film director Neil LaBute and a 2003 American romantic drama film. It premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2001 with Paul Rudd as Adam, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn, Gretchen Mol as Jenny, and Fred Weller as Phillip. The play was directed by LaBute himself. According to the author's instructions, it is to be performed without an interval or a curtain"
"a fair trial, adding that the law applied is essentially the same law that would be applied to a similar case today (i.e., 2004). In 1933, Wells predicted in ""The Shape of Things to Come"" that the world war he feared would begin in January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true four months early, in September 1939, with the outbreak of World War II. In 1936, before the Royal Institution, Wells called for the compilation of a constantly growing and changing World Encyclopaedia, to be reviewed by outstanding authorities and made accessible to every human being. In 1938, he"
"Geddes was working on designs for a Streamlined Ocean Liner, which also featured in ""Horizons"", and for which he filed an outline patent in 1933 and a detailed patent in 1934. That design also was never built. Airliner Number 4 received widespread publicity and featured in ""The Detroit News"" in January 1933, drawn by J. L. Kraemer alongside photographs of other Geddes designs. Christopher Innes has written that the giant aircraft flown by the engineers and mechanics of Alexander Korda's 1936 film ""Things to Come"", based on the H. G. Wells novel ""The Shape of Things to Come"" (1933), resemble"
"the future ""will be just as certain, just as strictly science, and perhaps just as detailed as the picture that has been built up within the last hundred years to make the geological past."" Although conscious of the difficulty in arriving at entirely accurate predictions, he thought that it would still be possible to arrive at a ""working knowledge of things in the future"". In his fictional works, Wells predicted the invention and use of the atomic bomb in ""The World Set Free"" (1914). In ""The Shape of Things to Come"" (1933) the impending World War and cities destroyed by"
"all""; two travellers from our world fall into its alternate history. The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war (""In the Days of the Comet"" (1906)), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in ""The Shape of Things to Come"" (1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, ""Things to Come""). This depicted, all too accurately, the impending World War, with cities being destroyed by aerial bombs. He"
"of 1250 copies from the London publisher Heinemann and 1600 copies from the Macmillan Company in New York. Three other stories appear in the volume: ""The Figure in the Carpet"", ""Glasses"", and ""The Next Time"". The Way It Came The Way It Came is a short story published in 1896 in London by American writer Henry James. The unnamed female narrator recounts her obsession with the mystical coincidence of two friends who seem destined to meet and who apparently do unite in spirit after death. Calling the story's original title ""colourless"", James renamed it ""The Friends of the Friends"" in"
"that control of air traffic would lead to world government reappears in the works of H. G. Wells, most notably his 1933 book ""The Shape of Things to Come"" and its 1936 film adaptation ""Things to Come"". The concept is also central to Michael Arlen's novel ""Man's Mortality"", also published in 1933. The corrected typescript of ""With the Night Mail"" was acquired at auction by the University of Sussex library in 1997. Aerial Board of Control The Aerial Board of Control is a fictional supranational organization world to manage air traffic for the whole world. It was described in the"
"cabinets. His designs extended to unrealized futuristic concepts: a teardrop-shaped automobile, and an Art Deco House of Tomorrow. In 1929, he designed ""Airliner Number 4,"" a 9-deck amphibian airliner that incorporated areas for deck-games, an orchestra, a gymnasium, a solarium, and two airplane hangars. His book ""Horizons"" (1932) had a significant impact: ""By popularizing streamlining when only a few engineers were considering its functional use, he made possible the design style of the thirties."" He wrote forward-looking articles for popular American periodicals. In the classic science fiction film of H. G. Wells' ""Things to Come"" (1936), he assisted production designer"
"concept of revolutionaries imposing ""a ""pax aeronautica"" over the earth"", at the center of ""Angel of the Revolution"", was taken up by Wells many years later, in ""The Shape of Things to Come"". Wells himself once wrote that Griffith's ""Outlaws of the Air"" was an ""aeronautical classic."" Though a less accomplished writer than Upton Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells, his novels were extremely popular in their day, seeing many printings . Griffith's stories foreshadowed World War I and foretold a utopian communist revolution in the United States. It also predicted that Great Britain would ally itself with Germany"
"The Philosophy of Composition ""The Philosophy of Composition"" is an 1846 essay written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. He concludes that length, ""unity of effect"" and a logical method are important considerations for good writing. He also makes the assertion that ""the death... of a beautiful woman"" is ""unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"". Poe uses the composition of his own poem ""The Raven"" as an example. The essay first appeared in the April 1846 issue of ""Graham's Magazine"". It is uncertain if it"
"The Order of Things The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences () is a 1966 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. It was translated into English and published by Pantheon Books in 1970. (Foucault had preferred ""L'Ordre des Choses"" for the original French title, but changed the title because it had been used by two structuralist works published immediately prior to Foucault's). Foucault endeavours to ""excavate"" the origins of the human sciences, which have their root in ""life, labour, and language"", that is: biology, economics, and linguistics. The book opens with an extended discussion of Diego"
"The Way It Came The Way It Came is a short story published in 1896 in London by American writer Henry James. The unnamed female narrator recounts her obsession with the mystical coincidence of two friends who seem destined to meet and who apparently do unite in spirit after death. Calling the story's original title ""colourless"", James renamed it ""The Friends of the Friends"" in 1909, revising it for inclusion in the New York Edition. ""The Way It Came"" begins with a frame story prologue, a 'cover note' by a magazine editor who judges a diarist's 'fragment' to be as"
"Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book ""Walden"", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay ""Civil Disobedience"" (originally published as ""Resistance to Civil Government""), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the"