utopians believe that we're going to hit some sort of a singularity. There's going to be the killer app that's going
Utopia versus dystopia. Activism vs learned helplessness.
-Utopia could be right around the corner, Joshie.
utopia section. It's exactly the same place and I did so completely collaboratively. So what I did is I - the first painting I did, I traced that exactly. That's why they fit
utopian imaginings of how man might go into space and start to put enough pressure on the process that something really unexpected like the commissioning of Playtex could happen?
utopia versus dystopia; the idea of how we navigate network systems socially. So in our culture in the US, we are now really, really, really everyone is
Utopia has a similar problem, in that it's actually not a desirable place.
Utopia has a similar problem, in that it's actually not a desirable place.
Chasing Utopia is your documentary.
A utopian pregnancy? It's sort of dismantling and restructuring of the traditional family unit, a redistribution of rules
this utopian vision of creating a car centric mega metropolis in the middle of
a utopian future for libraries.
The utopian possibilities. With utopia just defined as a positive course for history.
Are utopias even possible?
the utopian pipe dream the elimination of nuclear weapons the kinds of things the los alamos scientists after the
of amazing utopia. But the amazing utopia is whatever the people who control the AIs want it to be, right? And so that would
turn it into a utopia with realistic solutions?
into some utopia. And this this really is a utopian vision. Even if it ends up with humans going extinct, it's still
don't work in utopia, right?
It's this utopia that I don't personally think can exist.
And that is utopia for me here.
of weird marital utopia where you just do all these amazing things, and your partner says thank you, and you ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after.
That's a Utopia, but probably also wish fulfillment.
The difference in utopia and dystopia is, who's got their finger on the button.
The difference between utopian and dystopia is who gets to decide.
and scary or 100% utopian and kind of boring, right?
It was hardly a utopia but it was much closer to Commonwealth than what they were used to in England.
This is a utopian idea.
If there is a utopia, it's Estonia-- small country, unique, obviously, post-Soviet place, which benefited because in the old Soviet Union, it
been the melting pot utopia that their parents and teachers told them it was.
create new kind of utopian cities or visions that we can shift people into yeah no you bring up an an amazing point
So Professor Utomi is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and Founding Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University.
It will be a utopia.
In this utopian new age, identities kind of belong to everybody.
about kind of a utopian vision for the world, newcomers.
"Oceania," which was a Utopian society where there was broad-based property ownership to help preserve liberty.
We need some utopians out there who say, oh, you and your silly worries about jobs and wages and workers and all that.
so these utopian space operas set in this society called the Culture, which is ruled over by Ray Kurzweil--
But in this Utopian world of mine, you give your notice and you go to the school bus driving school, which is what?
And also anarcho-libertarian utopias.
I may be utopian, but I don't think that is the fundamental problem.
We will bring you to this utopic state akin to an AI heaven.
to get closer to the utopian solution that we need.
We don't ever find the utopia.
And it was like a utopia, really, because for me it was so wonderful.
or struggle or pursuit of a utopian or messianic age.
Are we at Google the last utopians, the last ones to hope and believe in a better future?
So it's not being utopian.
And we talk about the utopia of education and how much more of our time, probably, in the education system could be well-spent learning some of these things
And you accept that it's not utopia, but your sort of theme is the people who are trying to build digital utopia.