The closer people come to understanding what's truly going on, the more dangerous things become. Meanwhile, other characters find themselves ensnared in The Network's orbit, and through their interactions with its agents, the organization's purpose and secret plot come into focus. Jessica, who has been on the run from The Network her entire life, meets with the group and helps them evade capture. They find their lives systematically dismantled, while The Network operatives kill anyone in their way as they hunt for the manuscript and someone named Jessica Hyde. However, after getting their hands on the manuscript, the four – Ian, Becky, Wilson, and Grant – find themselves in over their heads, as a secret organization only known as 'The Network' is after it. When one Utopia enthusiast procures the manuscript, he invites four of his friends from an online forum to meet in real life. A rumoured unpublished sequel supposedly contains further information on future world events. Main article: List of Utopia episodes SeriesĪ community of comic book fans believe the graphic novel The Utopia Experiments predicted several disastrous epidemics, such as mad cow disease (BSE). market, Amazon released both of the original series on Amazon Prime on 1 November 2020. Initially nearly inaccessible for viewing on the U.S. Amazon then acquired the rights to the series as of April 2018, and an American version was released on 25 September 2020. HBO had originally planned to make an American version of the show in 2014, but did not produce it due to budget disputes. In October 2014, the series' official Twitter feed stated there would not be a third series.

The show has since gained a cult following. A second six-episode series was commissioned by Channel 4 and went into production in late 2013, and was broadcast in July and August 2014. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and starred Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie, and Neil Maskell. While the very feasibility, and morality, of megacity projects has been questioned from their inception - comparisons to all manner of sci-fi dystopias abound.Īleks explores if promised tech utopias will inevitably become crumbling follies, why we get swept up in the narrative of a single tech genius who carves out the future for us all, and if the cycle of hype we have all been swept up in is disrupting our ability to indulge in slower iterations, which could actually lead us to a brighter tech future for us all.Utopia is a British thriller drama television series that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014. The Metaverse has been roundly mocked and dismissed, with people deriding VR zoom meetings and legless avatars. These are both supposed to be the new places we will work, play, love and create - sweeping aside past cities and online communities to become a utopian place for everyone to gather, and live a better way.īut even as the foundations are laid… we seem to have moved on. The most attention grabbing ideas include physical Megacities like ‘The Line’ in Saudi Arabia, or Telosa in the United States, and on the digital side of things, we have the Metaverse. Our tech future will supposedly be defined by megaprojects.

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