Not a paradise of mine (that I’m researchin’), but here’s an utopia with past tech* I thought you might be interested: “Walden II” by Burrhus Skinner, conceive a “small-time” utopia-like fictional effort, inspired by science, without any “alternate history” (in the law-and-politics scale). Just sheer enterprising.
As a genre of fiction, it’s quite cool. It inspired quite a few hopeful real-life “utopian communities” as well. Some with stories that can be read online: of both failures and achievements. Some ongoing right now, and can be visited with the proper previous announcement and subsequent consent (people’s homes, after all).
If anyone reading this becomes interested in some planning, and would like someone akin to periodically talk to, no bets attached, I can be found online for message exchange.
_____________ *current tech, when written. The passage of real-time and new techs are addressed on a fiction-continuation article, “News from nowhere, 1984” by the author.
Aldous Huxley’s introduction to the unfinished ‘Hopousia’ by JD Unwin was always inspiring, I can’t come up with a good block quote to leave here, but if you’re into utopias, you might like it. I haven’t gone and read the rest of the book, so maybe as far as forwards go, it isn’t so great.
Not a paradise of mine (that I’m researchin’), but here’s an utopia with past tech* I thought you might be interested: “Walden II” by Burrhus Skinner, conceive a “small-time” utopia-like fictional effort, inspired by science, without any “alternate history” (in the law-and-politics scale). Just sheer enterprising.
As a genre of fiction, it’s quite cool. It inspired quite a few hopeful real-life “utopian communities” as well. Some with stories that can be read online: of both failures and achievements. Some ongoing right now, and can be visited with the proper previous announcement and subsequent consent (people’s homes, after all).
If anyone reading this becomes interested in some planning, and would like someone akin to periodically talk to, no bets attached, I can be found online for message exchange.
_____________
*current tech, when written. The passage of real-time and new techs are addressed on a fiction-continuation article, “News from nowhere, 1984” by the author.
Aldous Huxley’s introduction to the unfinished ‘Hopousia’ by JD Unwin was always inspiring, I can’t come up with a good block quote to leave here, but if you’re into utopias, you might like it. I haven’t gone and read the rest of the book, so maybe as far as forwards go, it isn’t so great.
http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Hopousia_or_The_Sexual_and_Economic_Foundations_of_a_New_Society