Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas

Re:Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas by college_physics on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:52AM (#34309332)

According to search behavior at least, interest in utopias is growing steadily since the fifties. The fans of the "you never had it so good" theory must work a bit harder https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=uto...

Interestingly, while from the beginning the word utopia was used to refer to a desirable (perfect) society, etymologically it simply means a place that does not exist.

In contrast to dystopia, which is clearly a bad place.

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Re:Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas by tremon on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:46PM (#34328564)

etymologically it simply means a place that does not exist

This isn't true, I think? Assuming that it derives from the Greek τόπος (location), it literally means "good place" (εὖ-τόπος). The no-such-place translation in Greek would probably be ἄτοπος, but that's an existing word and uses one of the other meanings of τόπος (it means uncommon or absurd).

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