Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
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#2Must be Windows investors after a new background view for an upcoming version of windows.
Re: Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
#3If they build an actual livable European-type town I'll be impressed.
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#4In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
Re: Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
#5California could certainly use more housing. I'll wait and see how this turns out.
Re: Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
#6In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
References please
Re: Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
#7In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
Agree, but why? It's an interesting theoretical question when you think about it. Is it because people who have the money and means have a skewed concept of the world making them incapable of constructing utopias/well functioning "synthetic societies", or is it more fundamentally impossible? And in the latter case, why then should we even try to improve society?
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#8The real challenge with this is keeping the type of people out who let SF devolve into the feverish nightmare politics it's currently running on.
Any progressive quality-focused community will, over time, be infiltrated by people who's only contribution is subvertering and sabotaging what has been built, usually in the name of egalitarianism or some other veil.
Re: Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
#9This is a risky plan that would either fail woefully or see unprecedented success.
I’m not American, so my opinion hardly matters here, but I wish to see a new successful city built from scratch…I’ve always pondered about the extreme difficulty of building and keeping cities in shape, and I’ll be amazed if someone actually pulls it off.
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#10In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
I actually can’t think of any good examples. Brasilia? Chandigarh? Irvine? All seem fine relative to their neighborhood.