Talk:The Shape of Things to Come

message: um, that section reads: "The latter organisations have no apparent contemporary parallels." really?
"The book described something called the 'World Encyclopædia Establishment'."  What about Wikipedia?
"'Central Observation Bureau' and the 'Record and Library Network', were 'complex organization of discussion, calculation, criticism and forecast' created by the Air Dictatorship."  um, the Internet, CNN, Blogosphere, CIA, NSA, State Intelligence?  I get they were not all set up by the "Air Dictatorship" but there are some obvious "contemporary parallels."  i propose some editing.--65.113.35.130 (talk) 22:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: World Encyclopædia Establishment

message: The page on Common Era claims that its first usage as a dating system was used "as early as 1715", which predates this work by more than a century. Specifically, "[s]ome Jewish academics were already using the CE and BCE abbreviations by the mid-19th century", with a source cited. This article contains no source for the claim that Wells was one of the first, and flatly contradicts the CE article. I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but it seemed worthy of bringing up. 72.236.6.82 (talk) 04:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of CE

message: I removed this section because it seems to be based on the incorrect assumption that this prediction proved accurate. Well, it didn't. The war did not start because of the Polish corridor. And there are just too many incorrect predictions by Wells to list them.
 ===Polish Corridor as cause for World War II===
 H. G. Wells criticized the Polish Corridor as one of the future causes of World War II:
 
 
Str1977 (talk) 15:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Polish Corridor

message: Despite being pretty reasonable, I chopped the following text because it doesn't contain any cites. Please find a reliable 3rd party commentary that makes this connection before re-including. Ashmoo (talk) 15:52, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chopped section 

message: The Film adaptations section now reads: "Information erased due to page sabotage. Section in need of re-writing."
Previously: 
'There have been two film adaptations of the novel.
"Things to Come", a 1936 film with a screenplay by Wells himself.
"H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come", a 1979 science-fiction film not at all based on the book.'
The article on the latter film supports the summary here. I have not seen the film, so have not edited, but it would seem to be nonsense to name it as an adaptation of the novel. --Mabzilla (talk) 20:13, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film adaptations 

message: Caste in Brave New World is not just psychological. Two other factors determine caste. One is whether an embryo is Bokanovskified -- massively twinned, the highest twinning producing the lowest caste. The other is whether an embryo is doped with chemicals like alcohol to stunt growth -- Bernard Marx was suspected of having been doped in embryo with alcohol producing his smaller frame. The fact that this section cites to no sources supports the note about original research -- badly done as it happens.
100.15.127.199 (talk) 03:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huxley misrepresented 

message: Redacting "dissolution" in the current lede per the following quote from the online text. The word "islam" occurs 7 times and this is the last:
We have told already how that issue was joined, and shown how necessary it was to bring all the moral and intellectual training of the race into direct and simple relations with the Modern State organization. After 2020 there is no record of any schools being open in the world except the Modern State schools. Christianity where it remained sacerdotal and intractable was suppressed, but over large parts of the world it was not so much abolished as watered down to modernity. Everywhere its endowments had vanished in the universal slump; it could find no supply of educated men to sustain its ministry; the majority of its churches stood neglected and empty, and when the great rebuilding of the world began most of them vanished with all the other old edifices that lacked beauty or interest. They were cleared away like dead leaves.
The story of Islam was closely parallel. It went more readily even than Christianity because its school organization was weaker. It was pinned very closely to the teaching of Arabic. The decadence of that language shattered its solidarity much as the disuse of Latin disintegrated Western Christianity. It left a few-score beautiful mosques as Christianity left a few-score beautiful chapels, churches and cathedrals. And patterns, legends, memories remained over in abundance, more gracious and lovely by far than the realities from which they were distilled.
 
Lycurgus (talk) 22:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Acknowledged/Agreed. Lycurgus (talk) 22:50, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islam, et. al.