The New Atlantis

This audiobook explores Francis Bacon's early sci-fi work, The New Atlantis, which envisioned a highly advanced civilization centered around organized scientific pursuit. It follows shipwrecked explorers discovering Bensalem, a society with innovative technologies and a focus on knowledge and human betterment, offering a visionary blueprint for modern scientific institutions. As one of the earliest stories of a hidden, technologically sophisticated world, it helped shape the utopian genre and modern ideas of state-supported research.