Utopian = everything seems perfect at first, yet these is something is deepely wrong in the background.

The original book that provided the name was about how it couldn't happen without downsides. A perfect society requires perfect people and nobody is born that way, so it sucks to grow up in someone's vision of Utopia. "The Scarlet Letter" and some stuff about the Salem witch trials is about Utopian societies of the past and how much it sucks to not fit into the ideals of the Utopian society. Some of the Arabian city states fit the futuristic Utopia idea already in many ways, but be an outsider in a deal with a local there that goes bad or do something that defies their idea of order, or piss off somebody powerful and things get dark very quickly.

This presumes that people regularly leave the tower, or at least the upper floors of the tower

Yes. Most definitely. If you can't get everyone out in a relatively short time then you have utterly failed as an engineer or architect. It's an assumption considered as important as an aircraft being designed to be able to get off the ground.

Conflict makes for interesting stories - which is why stuff like "Ghost in the Shell" with a future full of amazing things dishes up stories of people using them to commit crimes.

Just look at the US solar efforts

Good point, develop the technology, refine it, then throw it all away because it challenges established industries, leaving China to pick it up as if gift wrapped for them and make money out of it.

Or the German government's solar disaster if you want to see an extreme fail

I haven't heard of that one, how about you show us where to look to see such a disaster?

Correct. An 'established' what? It needs to have a noun of some type appended

An established creative :)
Come on now - you live in a world where Donald Rumsfeld is considered an intellectual and you're complaining about a bit of poor communication?

So now he's more powerful than when he was Vice President of the USA?
Give it up loser.

Well, you certainly save money on blinker fluid but you end up paying out the nose for voltage grease.

Ask the Europeans that constantly tell us Americans we are too enslaved to the notion that we all need our own car.

You just made that up. I don't know if you've ever driven around a European city, but car ownership is pretty widespread, at least judging by driving through Rome/London/Paris/etc.

It's funny what some Americans think about Europe. They've got this AM talk radio version of Europe knocking around in their heads. "Yeah, they're all dying in the streets because of socialized medicine and everybody's gay and you can't get a decent hamburger anywhere. And they're a bunch of carpoolers who don't realize that we fought and died so that people could drive their own 4500lb vehicle like God intended." "You betcha, Mack. Next up is Fred from Midland. So, what grinds your gears about Europeans, Fred?"

I guess that would be an answer if nobody ever took the time to show you how to defend yourself with your hands.

I think you have been listening to people, that have gleefully lied to you.

I think you are projecting.

A far cry from "proven to make up data and conceals data that doesn't fit his ideology".

No. Not being able to produce the data that your most important work is based on is not a far cry from making up data and concealing data that doesn't fit his ideology.

If a researcher can't produce his data, his work is not taken seriously. The scientific method includes making your data available so other people can review your work.

You didn't answer my other one. Does our use of Hindu-Arabic numbers conversely make the Indians and Arabs superior to us? Their use is far more pervasive than business suits after all.

Does that get the message across that I consider your argument about superiority of a culture (as demonstrated by influence) impacting on a space program as misleading, and to be frank, incredibly fucking racist. IMHO this "we are the masters of everything just because of where we were born" thing is straying damn close to Godwin territory.

Some of the issue with automobile manufactures is that the vehicles are so complex and need so much capital that almost everybody who tries to build a new manufacturing company in this industry usually goes bankrupt. Tucker and DeLorean are really good examples of this, in spite of conspiracy theories that suggest ulterior motives of existing manufacturers.

The other issue is simply complying with government regulations in the industry. Some of those regulations certainly have been established because of major screw-ups in the past, but many of them (in spite of the manufacturers complaining about them) are enacted explicitly to discourage new entrants into the industry. At the very least the existing manufacturers only offer token resistances to things like seat belt and safety laws that add complexity as long as it hits everybody in the industry equally... and keeps new companies busy trying to catch up if they tried. If somebody built an exact replica of the Ford Model T, it couldn't be driven today except as a historical re-creation for off-road usage and certainly not something for mass production.

Bullshit. He had both power and wealth before he took that line and has less power and not much more wealth now.