Utopia, Technology, and the Evolution of Society

Lewis, Arthur O. "Utopia, Technology, and the Evolution of Society" JGE: The Journal of General Education 37.3 (1985): [161]-76. (Title may also be given as "Utopia, Technology, and Social Evolution.")

Appropriate technology in recent "arcadian" works (as opposed to "utopian," in a terminology suggested by Northrop Frye). Deals with Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia (1975), Ursula K. Le Guin's The Eye of the Heron (1979), John Nichols's Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai (coll. 1977-79), Norman Spinrad's A World Between (1979), Mary Alice White's The Land of the Possible (1979); and with J. Ballard's "The Ultimate City," F. Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive, and L. Niven and J. Pournelle's Oath of Fealty (all of the second group cited under Fiction).

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