What is a Protopian Future?

Welcome! This platform is the place for anyone who believes in protopia where we can create a better future, and for those of us who are actively making that happen.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of Utopia – a perfect, but impossible world, and Dystopia a cataclysmic future which nobody wants to happen.

A Protopian future was first coined by Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired Magazine, He served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years.  Above all protopia is a future better than today — but not perfect. Protopain societies are ones which slowly and steadily improve the quality of life of their inhabitants. Major challenges are addressed like climate change, disease, poverty, urban strife, and supply chain breakdowns. This website highlights viable solutions which are already proven on small scales. Another key point is that these technologies give us new solutions to chronic problems. Including food production, water treatment, green construction, and renewable energy. When combined, these approaches can create a viable framework for a more sustainable world.

A Positive Future is only limited by our imaginations

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Visionaries have imagined how our cities could be altered or built from the ground up to reflect a more sustainable and human scaled lifestyle.

It is not enough to have a vision. Without a plausible bridge, a strategy to get there, few people will leave the familiar for the sake of what could be.

– Zev Paiss