The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi

An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the Eloi of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many, writesDavid Higginbottom. IN 1895,HG WellspublishedThe Time Machine, a speculative fable about a distant future where humanity had split into two distinct species. On the surface lived the Eloi: beautiful, delicate and entirely passive creatures