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The Time Machine The Original 1895 Unabridged And Complete Edition (A H.G. Wells Classics)

H. G. Wells

So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells send...

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What Now? with Trevor Noah

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What Now? with Trevor Noah

The novel was mentioned as an example while the hosts discussed radicalization, noting its perspective of an author looking from outside his own era.

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HG Wells' Time Machine, the perspective of the author is someone who's not of that time in the future where people are just like kind of willy nilly and like they're willing to let someone drown and n...

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The novel was mentioned as an example while the hosts discussed radicalization, noting its perspective of an author looking from outside his own era.

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HG Wells' Time Machine, the perspective of the author is someone who's not of that time in the future where people are just like kind of willy nilly and like they're willing to let someone drown and not do anything or whatever.

Timcast IRL

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Timcast IRL

The book The Time Machine was referenced as a parallel to the potential for Neuralink to divide society into two groups: those who use the technology and those who reject it. This division could lead to a scenario where those who refuse the technology are cast out and considered different.

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Brice Steinberg says a scenario Tim mentioned is like an advanced version of the Morlocks and the Eloids Eloids from the time machine if you refuse to use it you're cast out is that I don't know I've...

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Episode: Timcast IRL #672 Feds Launch THREE Investigations...

The book The Time Machine was referenced as a parallel to the potential for Neuralink to divide society into two groups: those who use the technology and those who reject it. This division could lead to a scenario where those who refuse the technology are cast out and considered different.

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Brice Steinberg says a scenario Tim mentioned is like an advanced version of the Morlocks and the Eloids Eloids from the time machine if you refuse to use it you're cast out is that I don't know I've not I've I've seen the movie yeah I've never read the book

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

This book was brought up in the context of the Murlocs and the Eloys from the novel, who are underground dwellers who can't be in the sun, and who rule over the animal industrial class.

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Oh, it reminds me of the time machine. The HG Wells novel where you had the Murlocs and the Eloys or whatever. And which was the Murlocs were the underground dwellers that really couldn't hang in the...

— Episode: The World Is Full of Mysterious Holes

Episode: The World Is Full of Mysterious Holes

This book was brought up in the context of the Murlocs and the Eloys from the novel, who are underground dwellers who can't be in the sun, and who rule over the animal industrial class.

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Oh, it reminds me of the time machine. The HG Wells novel where you had the Murlocs and the Eloys or whatever. And which was the Murlocs were the underground dwellers that really couldn't hang in the sun. The yeah, the Murlocs were the kind of snatch up the animals, animal industrial class who became the rulers and HG Wells plays a whole other bag of badgers.

Episode: CLASSIC: What will humanity be like in 1,000 years...

The Eloi and Morlocks from the time machine were mentioned as an example of unintended consequences of genetic tinkering. The book was used as an example of how well-intentioned actions could lead to disastrous outcomes, in this case, a split in humanity between those living above ground and those living underground.

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For fiction, a good example of this would be the Eloi and the Morlocks from the time machine.

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