A Modern Utopia

Wells, H. G. A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman & Hall, 1905. Rpt. with introd. by Mark R. Hillegas. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1967.

Presents a technocratic utopia ruled by holders of professional degrees (with lawyers and teachers supplementing the usual engineers and scientists). Possibly one of the works E. M. Forster satirizes in "Machine Stops"; see also K. Vonnegut's Player Piano (both listed under Fiction). AMU is discussed by W. Warren Wagar in "The Steel-Gray Saviour: Technocracy as Utopia and Ideology" (q.v. under Literary Criticism) 44-45.

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