Three Classic Utopian Visions Realized: More, Bacon, and Neville in the Abundance Economy

This is Version 2 of the paper. I added additional references to support the paper, corrected some hyperlinks that were broken or missing, and modified the Synopses and References section for the Homo Novus Series by adding an Introduction and expanding the final paragraph. I also ran an additional scan for grammar, spelling errors, and style, so a few sentences or words in the original text were altered but the argument and structure of the paper remain otherwise unchanged from Version 1. This paper examines three foundational English utopian texts—Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627), and Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)—as diagnoses of scarcity-driven social pathologies in their respective eras. Each vision was fundamentally constrained by pre-industrial limits on land, energy, labor, knowledge, and human biology. Conditional on the maturation of the contemporary Tech Stack (AGI/ASI, advanced robotics, fusion power, large-scale solar collection via Dyson-swarm-like architectures, and Starship-class multi-planetary transport), many of these constraints could bedramatically relaxed, potentially realizing and extending several of the authors’ core ideals under post-scarcity conditions. Markets are treated primarily as signaling mechanisms for preference and creativity; under abundance, Marx’s distributive principle and Smith’s invisible hand are argued to become less conflictual and less central to distributive outcomes. The paper maintains strict ideological neutrality, arguing that an abundance economy could complete these historic visions with fewer of their original compromises. Hypothetical 2045 scenarios and explicit integration with the prior ten papers of the Homo Novus series illustrate a transition toward an economics of meaning, creativity, and cosmic expansion.