Alright,so you have probably already heard about utopia. Not the game,not the book,not the movie and not...Something else. No,i'm talking about utopia as an idea. So,basically utopia is world peace everything is great blah,blah,blah. You know all that. Now,the easiest way to do it would be to unite the entire world,however its obvious why this is just fucking redicilous. Its not because of different cultures,we have that in today's countries (Russia,for example) but who would rule,and what langauge would we speak?
 
So,the speech problem could be solved by using world langauges. Sure,there already is Esperanto which no one uses,but in a situation like this,they'd be forced to learn it. Or maybe we would split into different regions,and then we could talk like that. Sure,that solves the langauge problem,but what about the rulers of this prototype utopian state (lets call it Pangea)? Sure,we could solve it the same as the langauge problem,and split everything in regions. Sure,it works for the US why wouldn't it work for Pangea? Because,just like in US it would require a president/emperor/king/prime-minister/etc,and since humans would,of course,have different opinions it would all end in a worldwide war,except in this case,it wouldn't be a war,but a riot,which would be even worse because this means that there is no one to send orders to those rioting,and this would mean a lot of dead civilians. But the utopian idea does require no goverment.
 
In other words-anarchy! No,anarchy doesn't have to bad, but it sure as hell wouldn't work. Without goverment there is no police,without police there is no law and without law its not a state its no man's land,that would only end in something like NDH (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska. Can't blame me for promoting my country's history ;)),which was a lawless state where people could kill each other without any consequence. A utopian state would became dfeunct in weeks,maybe even days. 
 
 
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 @McGhee_the_Insomniac: That is pretty damn genius,but that would just mean we would still get states,except owned by one dude. I'll loo kfor the book on eBay or Amazon. Thanks duder :)! 
 
@SeriouslyNow:
My book library will get too big soon x( 

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I used Snow Crash as an example. He did not create the idea of such a society and neither did Gibson. 
 
And I have read The Diamond Age. Yes, you would think that having replicator-like nano machines that could provide food and essentials any time would lead to a perfect world but in the book it hardly did. Nell had a horrible life as a child and later a full out war started. 
 
The difference between the way things were in Snow Crash and The Diamond Age is that in The Diamond Age power has once again shifted out of the middle class. You have the super rich and powerful Neo-Victorians floating in their cities and you have the people like Nell living in the gutter. In Snow Crash, even though things may have been rougher and more Wild West, there was a more even playing feild. Recall how Hiro was a citizen of Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong and the benifits that he gained from that, but in The Diamond Age one couldn't so easily become a part of Neo-Victoria. 
 
As far as the idea of the Metaverse goes, I'm still looking for a good real life application of the idea, but Second Life is just horrible. It's laggy to the point of being unusable, the controls and interface are clunky as hell, and it looks like shit. The makers of Second Life could learn a lot by looking at videogame development, but I've heard that they get pissed if you equate Second Life with a "mere game". lol Gimme a break.

I think the idea of a utopia can never become more than just an idea. People are far too imperfect to ever be able to live in perfect harmony with each other, theres always going to be people that want more than what they have and are willing to hurt other people in some way to get it.
 
I think the internet is a good example of this impossibility since its a microcosm of society (Though really, its not very micro). People's true nature is to be self serving assholes. So a utopia is unlikely. But I guess at the end of the day nobody really knows... Its impossible to know or understand all the variables, maybe a utopia is possible.

i wish creating a utopia was as easy in real life as it is in Civilization 5.
I also wish it was harder in civ 5, its to easy and breaks the game.
also Gandi is imba.

i want to live in libertopia so that being a white, upper-middle class male becomes even more awesome.

" @AnotherDuder:    You can't build a perfect society until you fill it with perfect people. "