I think the premise of the article is wrong. Most 'intentional' communities didn't fail and are still around after hundreds or thousands of years - they're cal

I think the premise of the article is wrong. Most 'intentional' communities didn't fail and are still around after hundreds or thousands of years - they're called 'villages' and 'cities'. Granted, not all were founded on ideological or philosophical principles, but many (if not most) were - some were christian settlements, some were people running away from poverty or some kind of banishment from their native communities, some were founded by idealistic explorers. Forming a community based on drug fuelled inspiration is of course doomed to failure, because like it or not, a human settlement requires a certain 'machinery' set up which can sustain it - food production, energy, waste disposal, health care and so on - all of these need to be well planned ahead of time and resources (human or otherwise) allocated for each of these areas. Another mistake that these communities make is turning away from technology and trying to live 'purely', based on the premise that technology in itself is somehow 'evil', which of course is not true, as that is a function of how people apply it to the world. What if instead of avoiding technology, people in a community embraced it and actually developed new versions of it ? How about a well-planned, energy-independent, self-driving electric everything, robots-everywhere high tech community of knowledge workers ? Psychedelic buildings ? Fine, 3D print (or fabricate) them, while making them energy efficient. Food ? How about building and fabricating plant-farming robots instead ? Education? How about children participating in the design and development of the software and robotics developed by the community ? Decision making: Through the software written by the community members. All of this based on a sustainability and ecological ethos / leave no trace ethos. Just a few pointers. Current technology is probably not quite there yet, although it's maybe a couple of years away - and what better place to refine it than the community itself. The 'community' technology, when refined enough, can then be replicated all over the world pretty easily. An alternative would be 'town-as-a-service' kind of organisations - building and maintaining the tech stack of entire cities/communities, although it would totally rock if the community itself did this.