Guess what, we have traveled too far in time for this book to have any meaning!

The story is fascinating, and the symbolism used in the book is intriguing. The book is a classic, so there is that. However I think it will be fair to assume that no matter how long humanity survives, it won't end up the way Wells imagined in his book. To be fair though, he wrote this book when we barely had any idea that atoms existed, didn't understand time at all, Einstein was still in school and far from revolutionizing our understanding of time and space and it won't be for another 18 years that mankind would know for sure flying was possible. So we could cut him some slack for presenting us with such a lame picture of future.
Asked, if I will recommend this book to anyone, I probably won't. I think in the last century or so, this book has pretty much lost all its charm or the fascination in regard to predicting the future. Sure it was a brilliant book in 1895 and is be respected for not only popularizing time travel, but also for the coining of term time machine, it is not worth it in 2018!