Visions of Technological Utopia - from a Hillside Overlooking Paris to the Eiffel Tower
<p>Utopian schemes invented by technology enthusiasts are as old as the industrial revolution. During the summer of 1832, a band of idealistic young men and women retreated to a country estate in Menilmontant on a hill overlooking Paris. Here, they made their communal living arrangement a public spectacle, hoping to demonstrate the social ideals that they wished to promote — brotherhood among men, equality between men and women, and society freed from the materialistic bonds of marriage.</p>
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