World Future Society Utopias Forum

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The World Future Society invites its members and other interested persons to submit essays on "preferred futuring" and on the relationship between utopian thinking and the study of the future.

Copyright: These papers are protected by the authors' copyright and may not be reproduced or distributed without the authors' permission.

To submit proposals: Please e-mail the full text, along with an abstract of no more than 50 words, to the editors.

Socioeconomic Democracy: The Theoretical Model
By Robley E. George
Socioeconomic Democracy is a theoretical model socioeconomic system wherein there exist both some form of Universal Guaranteed Personal Income and some form of Maximum Allowable Personal Wealth, with both the lower bound on personal material poverty and the upper bound on personal material wealth set and adjusted democratically by all participants of society.

A Proposal to Reorder Society
By James Concannon
This essay is a "call to arms" for Utopians to take advantage of what could become a cultural phenomenon, a reality show to nominate an independent candidate for President of the United States. The essay challenges those who write and talk about Utopia to use this show as a vehicle to actually run someone for President who would have a "Utopian" platform, and provides just such a set of views.

On Some Future Social Effects of the Communications Revolution
By Eduard Prugovecki
Methods of implementing computer-coordinated forms of participatory democracies by means of the Internet are discussed in light of the foreseeable progress in communication technology. Comparisons are drawn between the effects of the Industrial Revolution and the Communications Revolution at present in the making. The role of future Internet developments in changing the perceptions of social and political realities is examined.

Coordinated Group Decision Making: A Sociological Model for Future Democracies
By Eduard Prugovecki
Utopias that advocated economic egalitarianism fell in disfavor along with communism at the end of the Cold War. Yet, economic egalitarianism is fully compatible with freedom and democracy. The author describes how a complex of interrelated computers could facilitate a utopia of egalitarian democracy.

Utopianism Come of Age: From Post-Modernism to Neo-Modernism
by Tsvi Bisk
Utopianism arose at the same time as Modernism, suffering the same critical attacks through the ages. Now, as we move from Post-Modernism to Neo-Modernism, we need a new, practical Neo-Utopianism for the future.