The Future of Utopia

The Road to Utopia : A Future for Generative Programming 1

The future of software engineering lies in automation, and will exploit the combined strengths of generative programming, domain-specific languages, and automatic programming. While each of these areas is still in its infancy, a spectacularly successful example of their combination was realized twenty-five years ago: relational query optimization. In this paper, I chart the successes and mindse...

The Road to Utopia: A Future for Generative Programming

The future of software engineering lies in automation and will exploit the combined strengths of generative programming, domain-specific languages, and automatic programming. While each of these areas is still in its infancy, a spectacularly successful example of their combination was realized twenty-five years ago: relational query optimization. In this paper, I chart the successes and mindset...

Multidimensional Utopia: Chinese Logic of the Future Imagination of the Three-body Problem1

The greatest charm of science fiction is not the artistic imagination, but the scientific imagination.Liu Cixin’s the Three-body Problem as a Chinese science fiction novel, reflected Chinese writer how to think science and technology and its possible future of mankind’s imagination. This novel contained “Deconstruction” Utopia, “Transcendence” dystopia and “Composited” Heterotopias, Which fully...

Utopia on the Rocks

Analysing American society and finding little hope for it has almost become a 'favourite sport' for sociologists. Another book on this theme illustrates the strongly-felt and yet somehow 'manufactured' crisis of conscience in the USA.

The Death of Utopia Reconsidered