Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church

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The ability to transact in cash, of course, remains very important to a substantial part of the population and often to the most vulnerable. And cash is clearly an important store of value for many in times of stress footnote [3]. The Bank of England has been very clear that it will continue to issue cash as long as there is any demand for it footnote [4]. Wells' Second World War breaks out in January 1940 with a European conflagration from the flashpoint of a violent clash between Germans and Poles at Danzig - closely matching the actual outbreak of WWII. However, Wells's imagined war sharply diverges from the actual war when Poland proves a military match for Germany. The inconclusive war lasts ten years. Other countries are eventually dragged into the fighting, though France and the Soviet Union are only marginally involved. The United Kingdom remains neutral and the United States fights with Japan to indecisive effect on both sides. The Austrian Anschluss happens during, rather than before, the war. Czechoslovakia avoids German occupation. Its President, Edvard Beneš, survives to initiate the final Suspension of Hostilities in 1950. The team behind the CSP’s physiotherapy health informatics strategy is developing education and training to help CSP members make the most of clinical informatics. The Plague: Humanity may have done a pretty good job of screwing itself over, but it was the epidemics in the aftermath that nearly finished the job. Atomic Hate: Popularized, and may have coined, the term "Atomic Bomb", and predicted many of the forms the technology took, such as submarine-borne ballistic missiles.

The original novel prognosticates World War II (though in the book the war lasts for a decade or more), which ends inconclusively but leads to large-scale societal collapse — not helped by a horrific plague which nearly effaces the human populace (in the book the 'history writer' claims the world population was cut in half). Another possibility would be for a tokenised ledger, including a distributed ledger, to be securely and instantaneously synchronised with our central real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) .That is not possible today in our current RTGS. But we are now well advanced in the implementation of the next generation RTGS, which is scheduled to go live next year. This system will have much greater functionality including the potential for such synchronisation - which we are now actively exploring with the London centre of the BIS Innovation Hub. Though Carey and Ben cite financial pressures as the largest barriers, Euan points to successive digital competence surveys showing a mismatch between the potential of tech and our confidence in using it.

After around a hundred years, the Dictatorship of the Air is overthrown in a bloodless coup. The former rulers are sent into honorable retirement and the world state " withers away". The last part of the book details the utopian world that emerges. The aim of this utopian world is to produce a world society made up entirely of polymaths, every one of its members being the intellectual equal of the greatest geniuses of the past.

Nathaniel Ward "The visions of Wells, Huxley and Orwell - why was the Twentieth Century impressed by Distopias rather than Utopias?" in Ophelia Ruddle (ed.) Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Multidisciplinary Round Table on Twentieth Century Culture" the missional-incarnational church should be living, eating, working closely with its surrounding community, developing strong links between Christians and not-yet-Christians. It would be best to do this in the homes of not-yet-Christians and in their preferred public spaces .. but also in the homes of Christians. (p79-80) CSP heath informatics lead Euan McComiskie is optimistic that CSP members will continue to lead digital innovation across the NHS.Some banks in the UK and in other jurisdictions have been exploring and investing in the development of tokenised deposits as settlement assets on new forms of ledger (eg DLT). The majority of this effort appears to have centred on wholesale as opposed to retail financial transactions footnote [16], though there are signs that attention is now being given to tokenisation of retail deposits footnote [17]. The book’s style is precisely that of a history textbook: there are no characters to speak of, and hardly a trace persists of the poetic quality of Wells’s early novels. What is most striking about it is the unease inseparable from its date of publication: “The year 1933,” the historian of the future writes, “closed in a phase of dismayed apprehension.” The Shape of Things to Come becomes eerie when it foresees, however inadequately, the horrors that were in fact impending—horrors that Wells is eager to understand as merely a prelude to the grand World State that is surely coming. In this utopian era of the twenty-second century, all forms of religion will have been suppressed; “usury” and “monetary speculation” abolished, along with every other trace of capitalism; rational sexual happiness achieved after “ruthlessly eliminating sexual incitation from the lives of the immature”; hatred itself mitigated through treatment as “a controllable mental disease.” Self-interest will have given way to collective discipline: “We have learnt how to catch and domesticate the ego at an early stage and train it for purposes greater than itself.” The governance of the world will be in the hands of “a self-appointed, self-disciplined elite,” an elite consisting of scientists, social psychologists, and sensible men much like Wells himself. The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by the British writer H. G. Wells. Published in 1933, it takes the form of a future history that ends in 2106. In a literary response to Things to Come, Rex Warner's allegorical novel The Aerodrome (1941) is, alas, little known. Its Air Vice-Marshal, who rejects the human world as it is... proposes the training of "a new and more adequate race of men": the Wellsian program exactly". Leon E. Stover, Science Fiction From Wells To Heinlein. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. ISBN 0786412194 (p. 45)