Beyond Utopia and Dystopia

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Beyond Utopia and Dystopia
A Critical Examination of the Ecology of Science
Fiction
by Edward Miller
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The Linear View of Time
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The Circular View of Time
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The Helical View of Time
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Diagram and text is from Oliver L. Reiser,
A Cosmic Humanism and World Unity, (Gordon
Breach, 1975)
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Kinship Society
Feudalism
Mercantilism
Capitalism
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Kinship Society
Feudalism
Mercantilism
Capitalism
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More of the same Human Condition?
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The Transhuman Condition
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Utopia
You are here
The Present
Resilience
Apocalypse/ Dystopia
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Possible Futures