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This paper aims to examine the utopias presented in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. The human race enters an era in which artificial intelligence dominates many areas of human life, which can be called the utopia built by science. The world of the upcoming future will be a state of high-tech civilization and scientific versatility like the kingdom of Bensalem or the World State. In Bensalem, the natural world is the subject of experiment and the target of control. Besides, consumption and luxury are virtues there. Likewise, the World State is only producing and consuming everything including babies, and controlling every walk of human life. Both worlds are perfectly artificial. These utopias are compared and contrasted with a romantic utopia presented in Walden which shows the world of voluntary poverty and people who are independent and imaginative in the nature. Through these different utopias, the true utopia in the future can be imagined.
