"Man's Machine-Made Millennium"

Title"Man's Machine-Made Millennium"
Year for Search1908
AuthorsMaxim, Hudson(1853-1927)
Secondary TitleCosmopolitan Magazine
Volume / Edition45.6
Pagination568-76
Date PublishedNovember 1908
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Technological eutopia based on the discovery of a method of producing unlimited power. Every want will be filled by pressing a button, except for human companionship and sympathy. No one will need to work except as recreation. No disease. Cities will be replaced by one immense building.

Illustration

Illus. William R. Leigh.

Author Note

The author (1853-1927) was a chemist who developed explosives used in World War I.

Full Text

1908 Maxim, Hudson (1853-1927). “Man’s Machine-Made Millennium.” Illus. William R. Leigh. Cosmopolitan Magazine 45.6 (November 1908): 568-76.

Technological eutopia based on the discovery of a method of producing unlimited power. Every want will be filled by pressing a button, except for human companionship and sympathy. No one will need to work except as recreation. No disease. Cities will be replaced by one immense building. The author was a chemist who developed explosives used in World War I.