I enjoyed this short story. H.G. Well's has an awesome imagination. When I think of the future, I think of like 200 years from now, not 800,000 years! There were no flying cars, no beams of light that magically zoomed you from one place to another and no space food meals packed in little pills. The lack of these things made it more believable and very frightening! Makes you wonder where humanity is actually headed to.....