Doctorow already touched on this idea a bit in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The society there is *very* pie in the sky, deliberately so - it's sort of a "what motivates us after everything goes right?" scenario (answer - respect and popularity). It's mentioned by the narrator that some of them used to go out as missionaries to remote, Luddite areas and tempt them with technology, but that after a century or so, there's no one much left to convert.
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Date: 2008-07-14 03:24 am (UTC)