The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells (British, 1933)

Summary:
When Dr. Philip Raven dies in 1930, he leaves behind a powerful legacy to his friend: a collection of papers or writings divided into five books that predicts the world’s future for the next century and a half (from 1930 to 2106), inspired by visions he had experienced in dreams.
 
 When the events of three years stated on his anticipatory history started to happen, his friend decides to put together and edit his scripts in one book and publish it. He is completely shocked because Dr. Raven seems to have known some indeductible events like Hitler’s regime in Germany, the Japanese invasion of China, the aerial bombing of whole cities, and the dissolution of Islam.
 
 The book describes the evolution of the human government and thoughts through the events he predicted, from “The Old Order” or “Age of Frustration” when the world was full of violence, conflicts between nations, economic instablity, and religious discrimination, to the events during the changes in the world government between 1988 and 2059, which gave place to the worldwide Modern State, where the strongest nations set up a benevolent dictatorship for world peace, by abolishing national divisions, promoting scientific discoveries and outlawing religion.

Another summary:
The Shape of Things to Come narrates the changes that will occur in the world from the year 1933 to the year 2106; this chronicle, nevertheless, is compounded by the edited notes of a deceased diplomat, Dr. Philip Raven, who dreamed and wrote down the events narrated. The novel can be divided into two main sections: the events of human history before 1933, and the future consolidation of a modern state until 2106. In 1933, the different societies of the world realize that the sociopolitical system that has been operating up to that point is full of flaws and is not functional anymore; is in that moment when the Age of Frustration begins, a painful period in history that consists of the deconstruction of the established scheme and worldview in order to move forward to a new state of things in which humanity is able to reach its full potential. What sets this transitional moment off is an economic fall that has notable consequences: various major armed and atrocious conflicts along with plagues that end up significantly reducing the world’s population; both capitalism and communism are proven to be ineffective; the educational system, largely based on religious beliefs, is reformed and religion is outlawed; social feelings such as nationalism and the concept of family stop being the foundation of people’s identity. All of this, although ruthless, are the first steps to a favorable turn of events, the seed of the good that awaits the world in the future. The result of this struggle is a society in which there is one single state with one identity, one common language —English—, with no social classes and no religious divisions, and with one single goal: to perfect the capacity of genius and intelligence that is inherent to human beings in an ever increasing utopia.

Another summary:
To begin with, the novel is presented as if H.G. Wells wouldn't have written it, but a man named Dr. Philip Raven and every event presented in it are dream visions of what the future may be. The book is separated into five different books, each of them represents a different stage on human life and its progress. The first book is named Today and tomorrow which tells the story of human life from the latest years of the XIX century up to 1933. Basically, it talks about how the world was after the Great war and the complications humanity had to face. For instance the great depression in the USA, the development of new technology, how the actual war was lived through the soldiers' eyes, how new governments and leaders began to rise, and their futile intention of peace thanks to the treaty of Versailles not working as expected. 
 Then we move to book number two titled The days after tomorrow which tells us how the rising dictatorships and fascism didn't have the influence that they wanted, plus the way we know school suffered several changes such as the subjects that were going to be taught and the time they were going to spend on other things. It also tells us that the USA never managed to become an empire, instead, Japan began to arise even to the point of conquering China but then failing. He even predicted a second world war with the difference that it was between Germany and Poland, the war was mainly in Europe and America never interfered in it. However, the war became even more drastic because it became a gas and diseases war, it came to the point that a pandemic illness was originated in China and it quickly spread all over the world leaving just a few survivors. With the help of technology, humans found a way to eradicate every single sickness, but yellow fever. Here the human civilization began to have a downfall because now there was a new organization in the world with the small detail that there was no more religion, nor a proper educational system. Also, technology began to be obsolete to the point that it no longer worked; the only way of traveling is through aeroplanes. In general, the world is full of insecurity, there are faming and clothing problems- we don't have the materials- and the sense of the society is tiresome.
 Then we move to book no. 3 titled The world renaissance. Here the ”experts” want to restate economics on its physical basis. The League of Nations is the new ruler of the world. A new technological revolution was beginning to arise, however, all the great thinkers were beginning to be murdered. In 1965 the Conference of Basra took place where they attempt to have a transport union, to have a plan for the future and regulate how many planes were on hand, every vehicle(?) must be registered and there must be a Sae and air controlling with a Police of the air. With time the union became the most powerful armed force in the world. A second conference took place a few years later were they proposed that everyone has to work together and trade items between them. With this, a new world order arose and one of the main ideas that they carry out was birth control. 
 In book four named The modern state Militant, we face that there is no predominant religion in the world, the New Puritans are the new rulers of the world, they prohibited everything that may inspire people to be thinkers or greater thinkers, they change the schooling for their own benefit. Plus they signed the Declaration of Megeve that claims that now everything in the world is ok, there is not going to be war among the countries, there shouldn't be any slavery, there is not going to be any more poverty among other things. Everyone agrees. 
 In the last book named The modern state in control of life, we are located after the year 2020. In 2020 there were no more schools, and religions all over the world were fading with Just a few devotees. The mechanical inventions help with agriculture, there was this claim that there must be a huge variety of characteristics among human beings, also, humanity had to get rid of many material things- the goal was to have an equal, distribution among everyone. The older and the youngest person in a community were considered as ignorants and the middle-age adults were considered as the wiser. The new English - a simpler English - is considered the universal language. The last date on the book is age 2106 and the last parts of the book are not the words of Dr. Raven, but the combination of his ideas written by Wells.

World view: Describes in a variety of aspects and with some consistency an imaginary state or society which is regarded as better, in some respects at least, than the one in which its author lives.
Future projections: Presents a future-historical goal to be achieved by the efforts of human beings.
Ideology: Explains how a better society came to be, in which sociopolitical institutions and individual relationships are organized to a more perfect principle than in the author's community.
Characters, plot and writing style: A perfectly planned social order derives on the personal satisfaction and psychic well-being of the characters.
Classification: Dystopia