utopias
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The Mostly Online ‘Space Kingdom’ Of Asgardia Attempts Democracy
The self-proclaimed “space kingdom” of Asgardia is currently limited to a glitchy website and a satellite orbiting the Earth about the size of a loaf of bread. But Asgardia wants to be much more than just another micronation: It aims to join the United Nations and eventually send its citizens to lower Earth orbit where…
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Now Y Combinator Wants To Build A City Because Every Other Tech Company Is Doing It
Cities are so trendy right now that every big tech company wants to build its own. Zappos did it in Downtown Vegas. Amazon is kind of doing it in a Seattle. Alphabet is probably doing it somewhere soon. And now Y Combinator wants in on the fun, too, with a plan to build some kind…
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Blood On The Tracks In Pullman: Chicagoland’s Failed Capitalist Utopia
In 1880 industrialist George Pullman set out to build a capitalist utopia. The town of Pullman was established just outside of Chicago as a model community — a place that was supposed to produce both happy workers and a nice return for Pullman’s investors. It turned out to be a miserable failure. And conditions in…