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Tech oligarchs’ wildest visions of tomorrow amount to a modern secular theology that is both mesmerizing and, in his view, ...
One should always ask who a particular utopian vision is for. Everyone, or just a select few? If so, which people are allowed in and which are banished to perdition? In our phone conversation ...
I’m being somewhat facetious. It’s not an ivory tower. It’s Utopia, and of course, the little people are allowed — I mean invited. You know, like Sim City, but totally for real.
I think I was born to listen.” Her latest novel, “Happy Land,” about a real-life utopian community of emancipated Black people, called for a different approach. Viewed from one angle ...
But then come the darker aspects. In this futuristic abundance utopia, people don’t live in rural farming communities anymore because all farming is done in skyscrapers that use vertical farming ...
Charles Ryu escaped North Korea — twice. Today, he uses his experiences to try to educate Americans about the dangers of ...
where people have opportunities to spend time on creative pursuits. In this utopia, telepathy is the norm, there is no money, and there are multiple known universes. But of course a few time ...
“Where are the utopian stories?” I often hear people ask. But as five new books show, utopia is always in the eye of the beholder, and paradise is a messy business at best. Take “More ...