This brief history connects the past and present of utopianthought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up topresent day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise.
* Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about thesocieties who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over thecenturies
* Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions ofutopia
* Explores the many forms utopias have taken - propheciesand oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physicalcommunities - and also discusses high-tech and cyberspacevisions for the first time
* The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions ofreform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and ModernizationTheory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recentyears