Radio Shows

Before the advent of television, there was radio and in the evenings people who had radios liked to sit together and listen to radio shows as a source of information and entertainment. The radio show Evan is thinking of here is a very famous one called, War of the Worlds, already mentioned before in this story.

War of the Worlds was taken from the work of H. G. Wells who wrote the novel of the same title in the late 1800's. Remarkably Wells wrote about futuristic machines of warfare in his book pitting the (then) futuristic war artillery of man against invading enemy, in the case of the story, it was monster-like creatures from another planet in outer space. But it was as if he had a peek int the future of machines, he could see where technology was going.

In Well’s world there were machines, remarkably like tanks, machines that did aerial bombings much like we see today in warfare and this before planes were even “invented.” His story is filled with laser-like weapons and industrial robots too. It is remarkable to think that he had the insight to write about such things in an age where such things didn't even remotely exist.