H. G. Wells fictionalized the League of Nations as a future scientific world government

Evidence

In 1933 H. G. Wells published a novel, The Shape of ­Things to Come, that purported to be the dream journal of Dr. Philip Raven, an economist in the employ of the League of Nations who met an “unexpected death” in November 1930. Raven had been dreaming of the ­future, and his journal projected the vision of the League forward. It spoke of a Central Observation Bureau—­a “complex organ­ization of discussion, calculation, criticism and forecast” and a “World Encyclopaedia Establishment” in the “­mother thought-­city”—­a transparent stand-in for Geneva. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Wells’s technocratic League fiction pairs with the reader’s interest in how early global-governance fantasies were imagined — resonates with the ‘World Brain’/Encyclopaedia ideas. — connects to: The Wealth of Nations was a rhetorical campaign for capitalism, not scholarship — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 292