And that is the problem with these Utopian ideas, that they are Utopian.

He is, in a word, a utopian.

Hmm, that sounds nice, but it's Utopian.

Since this book we talk about things being 'utopian'.

You're a Californian utopian. You're a wild eyed optimist.

Every future society puts the ideals, previously thought of as utopian, into practice.

Why is the creation, the impulse to create Second Life, not a utopian impulse?

For centuries the idea that human beings would be able to fly was Utopian.

And here is another very famous Utopian vision, that of Ebenezer Howard, The Garden City.

Ideas similar to the basic income can be found in the utopian ideas of the Renaissance.

I used to want to design a utopian society or a perfect world or something like that.

So I think we should shatter some of our utopian assumptions and actually start doing something about it.

Learning how to live from that Earth in a way that is sustainable is not utopian, is not a dream.

Like for example, in the 19th century, any number of works of literature that imagined alternative worlds were explicitly utopian.

But more generally, you know, one other example I think about this, which is great relative to the utopian idea.

There is no attempt to structure the experience, to make it utopian in that sense that we put into it.

You have to have that level of freedom, and so I'm often asked that, you know, is there a, kind of, utopian or, is there a utopian tendency to Second Life and things like it, that you would create a world that has a grand scheme to it?

And being from the Silicon Valley, sort of utopian sort of world, we thought, if we can make this technology work in rural Uganda, we might have something.

I loved these people, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.

And in place of that, what happens is that Islamism grows as an ideology which is authoritarian, which is quite strident, which is quite anti Western, and which wants to shape society based on a utopian vision.

But despite this challenge personally, I'm still a huge digital optimist, and I am supremely confident that the digital technologies that we're developing now are going to take us into a Utopian future, not a dystopian future.

Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of Utopian ideals can be a burden, because you know that if everything were free, then the food stocks would become depleted and scarce and lead to chaos.