It would be utopian to expect a corruption free political party anywhere in the world.

Those are not utopian dreams they are among the most urgent challenges we face as a world.

In a world in which terrorists have committed atrocities and threaten to commit more, to seek complete government transparency is utopian.

You have to have that level of freedom, and so I'm often asked that, you know, is there a, kind of, utopian or, is there a utopian tendency to Second Life and things like it, that you would create a world that has a grand scheme to it?

Yesterday China was an anti capitalist lodestar for utopian revolutionaries today it has become an ultra liberal nemesis for a new generation of utopian reactionaries the defenders of the status quo in Europe.

Realistic conflict management will replace utopian hopes for conflict resolution.

John Hockenberry Why is the creation, the impulse to create Second Life, not a utopian impulse?

And being from the Silicon Valley, sort of utopian sort of world, we thought, if we can make this technology work in rural Uganda, we might have something.

The result is a litany of post utopian values that include a stronger emphasis on individual freedom and personal responsibility.

In addition, a utopian objective vector formula_22 with formula_23where formula_24 is a small constant, is often defined because of numerical reasons.

To defend post utopian values in the longer term, politicians (and generals and spymasters) cannot seek security by drastically curtailing fundamental freedoms, because to do so risks forfeiting public support and a weakening of the pillars of the post utopian market order.

I am not predicting a utopian world in which everyone is equally valued. But it may be a world in which people use their Klout Score (a measure of one s online influence), their Twitter following, or a similar measure to justify their existence, assign value to their activities, and measure their self worth.

When dreaming about a democratic future, we who were dissidents certainly had some utopian illusions, as we are well aware today.

Jean Saint Dizier It's probably something to do with the way I was brought up, somehow hippie and a little utopian.

Perhaps there are some non utopian ways of transcending selfish interests and doing what is necessary.

Now some of you might look at this and say, Hmm, that sounds nice, but it's Utopian.

But to dismiss them would be unwise, because their utopian aspirations are based on genuine and legitimate anxieties.

I loved these people, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.

Yet postponing, for the sake of immediate gratification, a certain degree of planning for the future collective good can be as disastrous as indulging in utopian schemes.

It is in times of crisis that Utopian ideas about ways of guaranteeing human happiness flourish, often claiming some scientific basis.

We believe that achieving this in the span of one generation is no utopian dream we have the means to do so.

And after all, you can t have a final, utopian society without having a final, scientific theory of human behavior, together with some mad scientists or philosophes to preside over the whole thing.

This may sound utopian in a way, it is. But at a time when every digital service becomes more and more personalized, why should social policy remain confined to the philosophy and solutions of the twentieth century?

Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian ideals can be a burden because you know that if everything were free, then the food stocks would become depleted and scarce and lead to chaos.

And in place of that, what happens is that Islamism grows as an ideology which is authoritarian, which is quite strident, which is quite anti Western, and which wants to shape society based on a utopian vision.

But the revolution is not only for the elite it also offers a realistic (non utopian) promise of dramatically improved lives for many people around the entire globe not in 100 years, but in the foreseeable future.

This emphasis on planning was one reason why the European project always appealed to the left and not only in France. The technocratic belief in ideal models is inherently utopian.

It is as if an inherently decentralized and individualist technology had realized an anarchist vision that would have seemed utterly utopian if dreamed up by Peter Kropotkin in the nineteenth century.

That is the plot of José Saramago s novel Seeing an anti utopian vision of post political democracies where people are angry, the elite are conspiracy minded and insecure, and social life is paralyzed.

At New Lanark and at later communities such as Oneida in the USA and the New Australia Movement in Australia, groups of people came together to create utopian or intentional communities, with mixed success.

I keep asking myself why did Obama choose the most repressive regimes in the Middle East to honour not only with his presence, but also to use as a launchpad for his Utopian vision of a peaceful and democratic Middle East? A vision that will continue to remain as illusive as a desert mirage for us Middle Eastners.

A world in which everybody expects a falling dollar is a world in economic crisis.

The world Layma Bowie was given was a world at war.

A World of Underinvestment

A World of Pain

A De Globalized World?

It's a small world.

A New World Architecture

A World of Regions

A World of Vulnerability

A Post Growth World?

A World of Schoolgirls

But that lost world was a world of unquestioned dynamism and growth.

Its world class universities educate a significant percentage of future world leaders.

So I invite you to connect with me, connect with each other, take this mission out and let's get listening taught in schools, and transform the world in one generation to a conscious listening world a world of connection, a world of understanding and a world of peace.