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Litigious Corporatocracy? Yes.
Alchemy succeeds in making gold? Um. Not so much.

Wells writes a fictional account of what is essentially the first splitting of the atom, by a character named Holsten. Bear in mind that he wrote this book in 1913. Holsten writes in his journal that he, “Felt like an imbecile who has presented a box full of loaded revolvers to a Creche.”

Wells knew what was up long before most people.