Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gifford vehemently disagrees. She says those who advocate cooperation ignore the greedy intentions of local developers. "That attitude is a very utopian and simplistic view of reality," Gifford says...
...action-flick pleasures of the feature films. In all its incarnations, however, Star Trek conveys Roddenberry's optimistic view of the future. Sinister forces and evil aliens might lurk behind every star cluster, but on the bridge of the Enterprise, people of various races, cultures and planets work in utopian harmony. Their adventures, in the early days, were often allegories for earthbound problems like race relations and Vietnam -- problems that were solved with reason. A key concept of the show, which began during the Vietnam War, was the Prime Directive. It stated that the Enterprise crew must not interfere with...
...sophomore, I've already had the full experience of being a first-year at Harvard. I can proclaim that it differed greatly from my utopian hope. It wasn't just that it wasn't as much fun. It was learning how to adapt to circumstances...
Ever since 1888, when philosopher Edward Bellamy foresaw a utopian world where money would be replaced by a card based on the "credit" built up by workers with their labor, financial prognosticators have hailed the coming of the cashless society. Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano tried to create some cashless utopias of his own by asking his guests to pay for things with beads as part of their tropical vacations. But in everyday life, consumers until now have largely chosen to hold on to their coin purses, dollar bills and checkbooks, reflecting an atavistic, under-the-mattress reluctance to part...
Your report is thought provoking. If in 4 million years mankind has made such anthropological progress, one can only wonder what the next millennium will bring. Will technological advances cancel out further physiological and intellectual development? Will a willful disregard of the laws of natural selection bring a Utopian society or a degenerating social organization and extinction...