THE MORALITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL HUMANISM: INSIGHTS FROM THE TIME MACHINE BY H. G. WELLS

Abstract

This paper will explore Herbert George Wells’ The Time Machine regarding the morality of technology while investigating its application into the ideologies of digital humanism. H.G. Wells novel offers a blunt image of the future, revealing the drawbacks of unchecked technological advancement and it also shows the consequential social stratification represented through the characters of Eloi and Morlocks. In the novel, Eloi characterizes the aristocratic class while Morlocks symbolizes the laborer class. The characters of Eloi and Morlock signifies the fact that the working class is suppressed by the aristocratic class and if this method of living the oppressed life continued like the times of H.G.Wells, people could end as prophesized in the novella. This work assists as per an admonitory tale linking the ethical implications of technology, and to prioritize the human values and social equality stresses the necessity of human-centered methods. The science-fiction work of H.G.Wells provides a dystopian visualization of human’s future .in the novel there is a scientist who builds a time machine and continued his journey to future where he met two races. H.G.Wells predicted his idea that class dissections were mismatched with scientific development by supporting democratic socialism. Wells’s time traveller character tracks the scientific method of hypothesis and experimentation. Ultimately, this exploration underscores the necessity of integrating ethical considerations into technological development to ensure that progress serves the collective good.