{"product_id":"future-wells-heretics-t-shirt","title":"Future — Wells Heretics T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man falls asleep in 1897 and wakes two hundred years later inside the world his own era built without thinking. That's the premise of Wells's \u003cem\u003eWhen the Sleeper Wakes\u003c\/em\u003e — and the line on this tee is the moment the Sleeper realizes he never once stopped to picture the future he was helping make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eH. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"We were making the future, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraham, the Sleeper, has slept through two centuries of \"progress\" and wakes to find a vast, mechanized London and a world remade in his name — none of it chosen on purpose, all of it the compounded result of a thousand unexamined decisions. Standing in it, he admits that in thirty years of life he'd never tried to imagine where any of it was heading. Wells published this in 1899, a decade before the century that would prove his point. The warning isn't anti-progress. It's about the difference between building a future and building one \u003cem\u003eon purpose\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sentence splits where the accountability splits. \"We were making the\" arrives small and casual above the rule — the part that sounds like momentum. FUTURE lands at the center, the thing everyone was chasing without stopping to describe. The second half falls below: quieter, slower, the part said after the fact. The rule is where the sentence admits what it was doing all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetail fit, true to size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine washable, cold water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFounders, product leads, scientists, policy people — anyone whose work shapes tomorrow and knows \"future\" is not a neutral word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe builder who's shipped something fast and questioned it later\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who's learned to ask \"to what end?\" before they scale, not after\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou make the future. Make it on purpose.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eH. G. Wells, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJournalist, futurist, and novelist (1866–1946) — one of the founders of modern science fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWhen the Sleeper Wakes\u003c\/em\u003e (1899) is his dystopia of a man who sleeps 203 years and wakes to own half the world and recognize none of it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe wrote to make readers look forward on purpose — the future, he argued, is something you're building whether you think about it or not\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePro-progress, pro-responsibility: the two were never supposed to travel separately\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore Wells: the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/we-are-mankind-wells-heretics-t-shirt\"\u003eWe Are Mankind Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/we-are-mankind-wells-heretics-mug\"\u003eMug\u003c\/a\u003e — Wells on our shared identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSize Chart (Bella + Canvas)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eWidth (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eLength (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2XL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":42590537875550,"sku":"5784287_21593","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":42590537908318,"sku":"5784287_21594","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":42590537941086,"sku":"5784287_21595","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":42590537973854,"sku":"5784287_21596","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":42590538006622,"sku":"5784287_21597","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":42590538039390,"sku":"5784287_21598","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/unisex-staple-t-shirt-vintage-black-front-6a44a6978d293.png?v=1782884000","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/future-wells-heretics-t-shirt","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}