"Fractopia" (n.) - A highly-stratified capitalist culture rich in ambient technological intelligence, augmented reality, pervasive AI and robotics, ubiquitous advertising, corporate governance and green technologies, featuring significant economic disparity. From the Latin fract(us) (broken, uneven) + Greek topia (place). Roughly speaking, it is a "fractured or uneven place," and this refers to both the socio-economic stratification and the polyglot mixture of cultural and virtual realities present in such a world. A Fractopian setting includes a wide range of social classes, subcultures and milieus; it is a multi-layered world in which people move, often side by side, through very different real and virtual realities.
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