Utopias

This brief history connects the past and present of utopian
thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to
present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise.

* Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the
societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the
centuries

* Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of
utopia

* Explores the many forms utopias have taken - prophecies
and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical
communities - and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace
visions for the first time

* The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of
reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization
Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent
years