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by zorked·15y ago·view on hn ↗
I happen to be re-reading Aldous Huxley's Island now. It's a utopia, and it isn't creepy at all: it's warm, tropical, physical, intentionally low-tech, productivity isn't a priority and technology (where it's accepted) actually serves to increase the time people spend living their lives. And it's very sexual, not "post-sexual".

I don't know how something imagined by a major corporation like Microsoft could ever be seen as a utopia. Yes, the streets are clean, but who the hell wants to live in a Microsoft future. Plastic generic people, a world so standardized that it doesn't matter where you are, human relations reduced to business transactions all under the watchful eye of omnipresent computers... it's classical dystopia, a world gone even worse than the "Blade Runner" world.