>The long standing trope is that Utopia is impossible not because of technical limitations, but because of deep truths about human nature. This goes back to the

>The long standing trope is that Utopia is impossible not because of technical limitations, but because of deep truths about human nature. This goes back to the Old Testament -- e.g. the tower of Babel - the first attempt to build a utopia -- dissolved into conflict. It wasn't internal conflict. It (supposedly) caused by 'God'. From Wikipedia: "God, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world."