H. G. Wells

Introduction

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Although he used many genres as novels, history or politics, he is best acknowledged for his science fiction novels. The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898) are his most notable works. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. [1]

Contribution to Digital Humanities

Wells presented 1936 his dream of a "World Brain". He influenced for example Arthur C Clarke to propose a world library powered by supercomputers in 1962. Wells's belief that human imagination and dreams are more important than technological possibilities for the technological development, is illustrated by the proposal of a world brain" [2]. The book World Brain is a collection of novels where Wells are proposing a World Encyclopedia so all information can be shared by the whole world. The aim with this was to contribute to world peace.