Tag: science_fiction
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The Billionaire’s Utopian Blind Spot: Why Silicon Valley Idolises a Socialist Sci-Fi Legend
Silicon Valley's tech titans idolise Iain M. Banks's Culture series — a moneyless, anarcho-communist utopia with no private property and no billionaires. The late Scottish socialist was blunt about it: "Which bit of not having private property have these people…
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