Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Utopia means elsewhere.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.
Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.
'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.