Some more on the subject in a few Less Wrong articles: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/ argues that a

Some more on the subject in a few Less Wrong articles: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/ argues that any much better society -- including any utopia worthy of the name -- is going to be different in ways to counterintuitive that they would sound scary. The present would seem the same way to someone from a hundred years ago; why would the future seem normal? http://lesswrong.com/lw/xm/building_weirdtopia/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/xm/building_weirdtopia/ Has some attempts to come up with "weirdtopias", bizarre visions of the future that sound oddly compelling. It's a fun exercise. And from a completely different web site, I have seen one work of fiction that bucks the trend by being set in a utopia so good that you might actually want to live there: http://cityofreality.com/ http://cityofreality.com/ So, you know, not all utopias are creepy and sinister.