Iain Banks On Culture
Iain Banks has an essay on the society that makes up the setting for his novels, the Culture. It’s a fascinating look inside the theory of one particular future, and though it’s very long, well worth the time.
Check it out at Future Hi.
The Culture, in its history and its on-going form, is an expression of the idea that the nature of space itself determines the type of civilisations which will thrive there.