The Time Machine

I have always found the time machine to be an interesting work. It seems to propose three potential futures for humanity, and while the Utopian vision that first occurs to the traveler may seem to be ideal, I find all of them quite disheartening. Wells is suggesting that humanity will, after solving all its problems, begin to atrophy. I must question the logic that suggests both that humanity will overcome all obstacles to the point where life becomes easy, and that should this happen humans would not create our own problems to overcome or feats to accomplish. I point to pieces we will read later, to other science fiction, and to the history of humanity, and suggest that as we solve more social and economic problems instead of sitting back we, as humans, will always look beyond our current realm and explore what comes next. Science fiction itself serves as evidence of humanity's eagerness to move forward in our development and to explore the edges of our current civilization.