Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I Challenges—Personal in Nature; Chapter 1 Private Dreams and Collective Ideals, Douglas Porpora; Chapter 2 Why Altruism Is Considered Deviant Behavior: Obstacles on the Path to a Viable Utopia, Joy Weinstein; Part II Challenges—Conceptual in Nature; Chapter 3 Utopia Revisited: New Thinking on Social Betterment, Michael Marien; Chapter 4 Utopia—An Obsolete Concept, Joseph F. Coates; Chapter 5 Utopianism Comes of Age, Tsvi Bisk; Chapter 6 Utopia and the Attempted Flow of Useful Ideas: Why Being Able to Define and Measure a Clear Vision Matters, Roger Kaufman; Part III Methods: Even Better Tools; Chapter 7 Modest Steps toward an Ideal World: Sociological Practice and Utopia, Ross Koppel; Chapter 8 Utopian Poetry: A Medium for the Message, Lane Jennings; Chapter 9 Building Common Ground: Rethinking Rules of Engagement, Harris Sokoloff; Chapter 10 The Utopian University of the People: A Story That Is Not Too Good to Be True, Robert J. Merikangas; Part IV Methods: Information Technology; Chapter 11 The Human Utopia and the Web, David Weinberger; Chapter 12 Toward a New Democracy, Stephen Downes; Chapter 13 Internet Dreaming: Investigating Online Community at the Math Forum, Wesley Shumar; Chapter 14 Welcome to “the Collective”: New Meaning to a Meeting of Minds, Allan Stegeman; Part V Looking Inward; Chapter 15 Understanding Opposing Viewpoints: Placing Yourself in the Shoes of the Other, R. Dean Wright; Chapter 16 The Conscious Use of the “Mirror Effect”: Co-Creating a Utopian World, Carroy U. Ferguson; Chapter 17 Surprised on the Run!, Diane McManus; Part VI Looking Homeward; Chapter 18 Utopias and City Planning: Finding Strength in One Another, Thomas A. Reiner; Chapter 19 Distributed Floating Cities: A Laboratory for Exploring Social Utopias, Patrick Salsbury; Chapter 20 I Am a Utopian: Creating the “Resort Circle”, Ernest Vlahos; Chapter 21 Personal Utopia: Technology’s Effect on the Meaning of Home, James Mitchell; Part VII Schooling Possibilities; Chapter 22 A Future Vision for Public Education, Marilyn Vlahos; Chapter 23 Blue Sky for Black America: Utopia and African America’s Future, Jesse Rhines; Chapter 24 Inventing Utopian Delinquency Reforms: Being There in Ways That Work, William Du Bois; Part VIII High-Schoolers on Utopia; Chapter 25 Posterity in Their Hands: High School Students and Their Hopes for Utopia, William McKenna; Chapter 26 Conception for Perfection: A Practical Utopia, Kyle Bady; Chapter 27 Settling the High Frontier: Castles in the Sky, Benjamin Novack; Part IX Choices: Very Personal; Chapter 28 “How Do You Want Your Abortion?”, Margaret R. Johnston, Claire Keyes; Chapter 29 Read ’Em and Weep, Boys, John E. Glass; Chapter 30 Choosing Your Future, Wendell Bell; Part X Choices: Societal; Chapter 31 The Journey Counts Most: Building Deserving Organizations, Douglas Bedell; Chapter 32 The Society Unions Can Build: Toward a Utopian Social Democratic America, Dovid Reynolds; Chapter 33 Utopian Conceptions of Society’s Third Sector, Jon Van Til; Part XI Nation-Building Aids; Chapter 34 Utopianism and Grassroots Alternatives, Valerie Fournier; Chapter 35 The Ulithi Project: Can a Traditional Non-Western Culture Survive?, Roger A. Straus, Diane E. Straus; Chapter 36 Utopias Discovered: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflict, Irwin Deutscher; Chapter 37 The World Senate and Academy; Chapter 38 The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics, Jocque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows; Chapter 39 Our Hard Problems Need Soft Solutions: This Is the Century of Soft Things, Jim Pinto; Chapter 40 Planetary Social and Spiritual Transformation: P. R. Sarkar’s Eutopian Vision of the Future, Sohail Inayatullah; Chapter 41 When Can the Just Society Use Force? A Proposal for Radical Tolerance, Adrienne Redd; Part XIII Looking Forward; Chapter 42 Living the Dream, “Another World Is Possible“: Combining a Spiritual Perspective with Social Action in the Developing World, Dada Maheshvarananda; Chapter 43 Peacemaking: From Talk to Action, Robert J. Merikangas; Chapter 44 Our Safety Is Within Our Grasp, Hal Pepinsky; Part XIV Drawing It Together— and Moving On; Chapter 45 Our Future As a Species: A View from Biological Anthropology, Melvin Konner; Chapter 46 Immortality: Closer Than You Think, Stanley Shostak; Chapter 47 The Outward Course: Dystopias and Utopias in Outer Space; Epilogue: Getting On with It

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Arthur B. Shostak