Many humble thanks.  I hope you have looked thru Jon Will's site as well (UtopiaNow.org).  My site had a lot of links from the Assumptions page.  I hope you at least looked at the link for money.  (http://members.fortuneciyt.com/utopia4all/money.html) That one in particular is pretty central to my idea of Utopia by solving material scarcity.  I'm still working on the interpersonal bit, which is just as important.

>>a true Utopia can only be created in your mind...a physical Utopia can not withstand the test of time.  

One of the things I brushed on but didn't do very well elaborating is that what makes for Utopia changes over time.  The life available to most people in developed countries today would far surpass the wildest dreams of people living 200 years ago, and yet we still do not see what we have as Utopia -- the context of our existence has changed with technology.  This is somewhat analagous to a person who has a given income will want more, and yet should that person suddenly have double that, he will soon find even the new amount is not as much as he wants.  What I wanted to suggest is that we can successively approximate Utopia (to borrow a phrase from calculus) with focus.  We just have to remember that it is a moving target so we have to dynamically adjust where we are aiming.

>>With a mental Utopia, you only have to please one person, and it can change much quicker and with greater ease than a physical Utopia.

True, but we are social animals.  We must have interaction at least for care when very young, old and infirm, and for procreation.  I think we need far more than just that.  We need to feel like we belong to something, to be good at and appreciated for our ability doing something, all that Maslow stuff.  A life within our own virtual Utopia could be pretty exciting for a while, but stands the possibility of becoming stagnant.  Does the scenario presented in "Matrix" not seem perhaps a bit dystopian to you?

>>a little bit about your background... 

- BA, Economics, 1979, Colorado College
- Student of John Trott, naturalist extraordinaire (he just recently died, but he's touched many lives and brought understanding and appreciation of the environment to many during his life of teaching).
- Son of a civil servant who worked at various desks in AID trying to bring some semblance of progress to many third world countries as she tried to introduce appropriate technology and free market capitalism.  She would often have guests over and I would listen to her discuss these concepts with them, as well as hear of the myopia of those who did not understand what she was trying to do.
- I grew up watching the hippies and seeing their basic tenets of love and peace, but also seeing their low productivity.

>>are you a teacher, student, neither... 

I am a concerned world citizen and have been thinking since my teens in the 1970s about how the world could be better.  As such I am a student of life.  I have put the site together in the hope that people will read the ideas and decide they make enough sense to pursue them.  I would hope that would make me a thought provoker as opposed to a rabble rouser.

>>Is this site sponsored by an organization... 

No, this site is strictly my ideas, compiled (granted not particularly well organized) and presented for those who would take the time and have the desire to think about them.  I am glad you are one of these.

>>is fortunecity the organization or just a web page provider.  

The latter.

>>Did you have a specific puropse in sharing this information?

I am not particularly happy with how power is wielded, how my life is less than it could be (as could probably be said for most people) both in terms of what I do and what I have, how our environment is being overrun by humankind without much regard for the consequences, how we are getting worse instead of better at interacting with one another (leading to crazed shootings at schools and workplaces, etc.), and I want as many people as possible to think about how we might solve these and other problems.  Reality is what we make it, and we don't *have* to settle for what someone else doles out to us unless we don't care and won't do anything for ourselves.  Sadly, most people fall into apathy because they are too caught up in day-to-day life to think of or devote energy to improving our lot.  I hope my site lights a fire under some folks' feet to do something more.