It must have been intentional that all the Dystopia examples are almost one-to-one mappings of the real world? Except for the cognitive one. That one stands out as strange, perhaps intentionally—the message is that the world is fucked, and we’ve only one more chance as the last Dystopian calamity looms before us.
As to the assignment:
Economic Weirdtopia: The production economy is entirely automated. Supply is near infinite due to the constellation of this automation with asteroid mining. (The weird part is that the political will was somehow mustered to accomplish this.) Quite oddly, class inequalities are no longer sustainable—due to the occasional public slaughter of the rising bourgeoisie and power elites.
Sexual Weirdtopia: What you described as Utopia seems pretty damn weirdtopia to me.
Governmental Weirdtopia: Each person is a congressmen. “Leaders” are chosen by lot, or else elected on merit by representatives chosen by lot. Laws are written and interpretted by juries, who are themselves potentially open to prosecution for the verdicts which they render. Lawmakers can be charged criminally by the people for the laws they pass.
Technological Weirdtopia: The human race has turned into a civilization of AI flying around the solar system (in a Dyson sphere).
It must have been intentional that all the Dystopia examples are almost one-to-one mappings of the real world? Except for the cognitive one. That one stands out as strange, perhaps intentionally—the message is that the world is fucked, and we’ve only one more chance as the last Dystopian calamity looms before us.
As to the assignment:
Economic Weirdtopia: The production economy is entirely automated. Supply is near infinite due to the constellation of this automation with asteroid mining. (The weird part is that the political will was somehow mustered to accomplish this.) Quite oddly, class inequalities are no longer sustainable—due to the occasional public slaughter of the rising bourgeoisie and power elites.
Sexual Weirdtopia: What you described as Utopia seems pretty damn weirdtopia to me.
Governmental Weirdtopia: Each person is a congressmen. “Leaders” are chosen by lot, or else elected on merit by representatives chosen by lot. Laws are written and interpretted by juries, who are themselves potentially open to prosecution for the verdicts which they render. Lawmakers can be charged criminally by the people for the laws they pass.
Technological Weirdtopia: The human race has turned into a civilization of AI flying around the solar system (in a Dyson sphere).
Cognitive Weirdtopia: ”