"Utopian thought always relates to the future, whether near or far away, and a future quite different from present reality."

Fredrick L Polak in Frank Manuel, Utopias and Utopian Thought, p282

"...More...chose the word utopia, as an ambiguous midterm between outopia, no place an eutopia, the good place..."

Lewis Mumford in Frank Manuel, Utopias an Utopian Thought, p8






"...it's not that Microscoft is going to make it all some wonderful new world, but that the combined, incremental, slow accumulation of changes does kind of subtly shift culture an the possibility of certain forms of action in a different direction."

McKenzie Wark, 21C, 1/96, p37