Humans want to know what the future holds for them. Many imagine what a future society might look like. Some act upon their vision – either to try and bring about radical change or to warn and save society from dangers ahead. Our module will look at Utopian and Dystopian projects and visions from the 16th to the 21st century. Our sources will range from past to present futures and include ambiguous sixteenth-century treatises describing the ideal society to recent sci-fi films imagining the relationship between human and machine in the immediate future.