After Us, or the World as it Might Be, also known as After Us, is a collection of essays in futurology written by British surgeon John Lockhart-Mummery, and published by London's Stanley Paul in 1936.

After Us, or the World as it Might Be is a collection of essays in futurology written by British surgeon John Lockhart-Mummery, and published by Stanley Paul in 1936.

[7] Lockhart-Mummery envisages government control of reproduction[7] and imagines a world where "all men, except those approximating the ideal citizen" would be sterilised, and women would breed from the remaining stock, in order to produce "perfection".

[2] In the fourth chapter titled "preferential breeding", he proposes that all male children should be sterilised shortly after birth, except for those carefully selected to exclude "bad hereditary factors".

[1] He thought the separation of sexual love from reproduction would have profound social implications for society and possibly give women greater independence.