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theadvancedapes  ·  3773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Neal Stephenson against Dystopia

I think that is an important point. I don't personally believe utopia is a phenomenon that can exist for humans in reality. What I mean by "utopia" having function in the genre of science fiction, is simply that optimistic and imaginative narratives of the future can literally be used as tools to increase the probability of human social/technological progress.