utopia – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:08:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 Utopistics, explained https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/utopistics Mon, 21 Jan 2019 01:30:17 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=86866

Utopistics is an emerging field in political science, dealing with the creation of an alternative social system or civilization with different values and priorities from the dominant ones today. Learn about it with this video:

Is there a viable alternative to the neoliberal economic consensus?

Is the nationalism and protectionism of Trump and similar politicians the only alternative?

Is another world possible?

Is a respected alternative even necessary for us to justify getting rid of a reigning economic or social system?

These questions are all relevant to futurism, which closely resembles utopistics in its scope and often asks similar questions.

]]> Should We be Cautious about Envisioning Dystopias? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/should-we-be-cautious-about-envisioning-dystopias Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:20:03 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=72402

How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?

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