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Topic: Iain M. Banks

Elon Musk envisioned a future with optional work and irrelevant money thanks to the domination of artificial intelligence. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

The creepy logic of a post-money society

Iain Banks' spaceship poetry

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