{"id":57899,"date":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardvanhooijdonk.com\/blog\/trendwatcher-in-the-spotlight-sci-fi-visionary-h-g-wells\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T10:50:04","slug":"trendwatcher-in-the-spotlight-sci-fi-visionary-h-g-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/en\/trendwatcher-in-the-spotlight-sci-fi-visionary-h-g-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Trendwatcher in the spotlight: sci-fi visionary, H.G. Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"bold-list\">\n<li>From a young, fanatical reader to science fiction icon<\/li>\n<li>The Island of Dr Moreau: setting the basis for modern genetic engineering<\/li>\n<li>Wells\u2019 terrible prediction: the atomic bomb<\/li>\n<li>The First Men in the Moon beats Armstrong<\/li>\n<li>Wireless communication: once a sci-fi storyline, today a reality<\/li>\n<li>Fictional ideas: what\u2019s in it for today\u2019s scientists?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI wander around the world as a common man and, as a common man, observe what is going on around me,\u201d H.G. Wells once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/2014\/04\/h-g-wells-it-seems-me-i-am-more-left-you-mr-stalin\">said<\/a>. And he certainly observed a lot, digesting what he saw and offering startlingly accurate predictions of the future.<\/p>\n<h2>From a young, fanatical reader to science fiction icon<\/h2>\n<p>Herbert George Wells, often referred to as the founder of science fiction, was born in 1866 in London, and was an avid reader from an early age. At seven, he was already exploring works by Charles Dickens and Washington Irving. And after getting a scholarship at The Normal School of Science, Wells spent most of his time studying astronomy, biology, and chemistry, while still following his passion to read and write. After publishing his first novel, The Time Machine, Wells became an overnight success. The book dealt with both social and scientific topics, such as questions of meaning and humanity\u2019s penchant for self-destruction &#8211; a trend that continued throughout his works. Following this success, he wrote The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. The list, of course, goes on and on. At one point in his life, Wells was writing three novels a year, resulting in a huge volume of work that eventually totalled more than 100 books. Although Wells\u2019 work left a deep mark on the society and time in which he lived, what distinguished him from other writers who might have shared similar visions, was his ability to predict the future, to see past the limitations of his era and imagine how technology would &#8211; and wouldn\u2019t &#8211; change our lives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33095\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/George-Wells-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of H.G. Wells sitting at his desk and writing\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Although Wells\u2019 work left a deep mark on the society and time in which he lived, what distinguished him from other writers who might have shared similar visions, was his ability to predict the future, to see past the limitations of his era and imagine how technology would &#8211; and wouldn\u2019t &#8211; change our lives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The Island of Dr Moreau: setting the basis for modern genetic engineering<\/h2>\n<p>In his book, The Island of Dr Moreau, which was published in 1896, Wells introduces a mad doctor who conducts experiments on different animals, turning them into human hybrids. The idea that scientists were sometimes playing God later became a common theme, but Wells was among the first to explore it, following on the heels of Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein. Although today\u2019s scientists aren\u2019t creating new animal species by assembling body parts, they\u2019re working on growing compatible organs for human transplant through genetic engineering &#8211; far closer to Wells\u2019 nightmare than Shelley\u2019s. And despite ethical concerns, scientists have taken far more than the first step in this direction. As the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jan\/26\/first-human-pig-chimera-created-in-milestone-study\">reports<\/a>, researchers managed to insert human cells into a pig embryo, a major breakthrough set to revolutionise the process of growing functional organs and tissues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scientists created the first human-pig embryo that could revolutionize healthcare\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYIQ2w-UCaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Wells\u2019 terrible prediction: the atomic bomb<\/h2>\n<p>Almost 30 years before the Manhattan Project produced the world\u2019s first nuclear weapon, H.G. Wells envisioned one of the most defining inventions of the 20th century. In his novel The World Set Free, Wells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-33365776\">described<\/a> a grenade that explodes indefinitely, a weapon of mass destruction that shares a terrible resemblance to future developments. His vision was so accurate that it even included a gigantic mushroom cloud and long-term radiation.<\/p>\n<h2>The First Men in the Moon beats Armstrong<\/h2>\n<p>But Wells didn\u2019t predict only catastrophes such as the atomic bomb. The First Men in the Moon, a scientific romance published in 1901, 68 years before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, tells a story about two protagonists, a businessman and a scientist, who decide to take a trip to the Moon where they encounter numerous creatures referred to as \u201cSelenites\u201d. During their travel, they experience the weightlessness of space, and when they land on the Moon, they\u2019re amazed by its low gravity. And although Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, didn\u2019t encounter strange creatures or fast-growing jungles, many of the details of this expedition were clearly envisioned years before it actually happened.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33102\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33102 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Armstrong-1024x799-1.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Armstrong standing next to to the US flag on the moon\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, didn\u2019t encounter strange creatures or fast-growing jungles, many of the details of this expedition were clearly envisioned years before it actually happened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Wireless communication: once a sci-fi storyline, today a reality<\/h2>\n<p>Although H.G. Wells couldn\u2019t even imagine how dependent we would be on his next prediction, he certainly did a good job in introducing it to us. The mobile phone, which has become a necessity for modern life, is mentioned in novels such as The Shape of Things to Come, and Men like Gods (1923), where the protagonists communicate wirelessly through devices similar to today\u2019s mobiles. In Men like Gods, he also <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/64409\/7-eerie-ways-that-h-g-wells-predicted-the-future#.l1hZrnlqA\">describes<\/a> something like email and voicemail where \u201ca message is sent to the station of the district in which the recipient is known to be, and there it waits until he chooses to tap his accumulated messages. And any that one wishes to repeat can be repeated. Then he talks back to the senders and dispatches any other messages he wishes\u201d. That\u2019s an amazing vision of things to come!<\/p>\n<h2>Fictional ideas: what\u2019s in it for today\u2019s scientists?<\/h2>\n<p>H.G Wells also made other predictions about future technologies, such as a death ray and a time machine, neither of which have been invented &#8211; yet. But it\u2019s worth considering that many of Wells\u2019 predictions &#8211; a very long list &#8211; have come to pass. His written work didn\u2019t just open doors to a completely new world for his readers, it also inspired many others to make his visions a reality. Wells, a great storyteller who imagined the unimaginable, is still pushing scientists to inch a little closer to his creative imagination. So, who knows, maybe in the years ahead we\u2019ll be talking about time travel or invisibility drugs, the same way we\u2019re talking about our phones or gene editing now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a young, fanatical reader to science fiction icon The Island of Dr Moreau: setting the basis for modern genetic engineering Wells\u2019 terrible prediction: the atomic bomb The First Men in the Moon beats Armstrong Wireless communication: once a sci-fi storyline, today a reality Fictional ideas: what\u2019s in it for today\u2019s scientists? \u201cI wander around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45343,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2870],"tags":[4218,4593],"article-type":[],"trends":[5476],"class_list":["post-57899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-future","tag-trendwatcher-en-2","trends-biotech-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trendwatcher in the spotlight: sci-fi visionary, H.G. 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