This kind of whimsical, lethargic atmosphere has cemented the image of Santa Cruz (pop. 250, 000) as a bohemian utopia by the sea.

FORBES: Booby Prize

Mr Lacorne notes that although the president's speeches refer often to religion, he seldom speaks, as Reagan and America's Puritan forebears did, of America as a religious Utopia.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

In fact this scenario of unlocked laboratories and sleeping quarters is probably as close to a global utopia as we're ever going to get.

BBC: So remote, it could pass for Mars

The kind who was so driven by the things they wanted to accomplish that they saw high school more as a waiting room than a utopia.

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Those who saw it as a flash in the pan looked like fools when it took over the wired world, while those who saw it as a techno-utopia that would enlighten (and enrich) the world now hold stock options that are under water.

FORBES: A Net Uncertain

Never hesitant about redesigning the environment as his personal Utopia, he promoted his plan for Broadacre City, developed in the 1930s, as a decentralized alternative to suburbia where skyscrapers rose in pastoral settings.

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Between YouTube (NASDAQ: GOOG), which has become a music video utopia, and the numerous YouTube competitors (as well as the many on-demand options available through cable providers like Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWC), etc.), we are covered.

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