TFIE048 CUL23: The Culture series by Banks is a post-scarcity, post-politics tabula rasa

Amazon is reportedly working on a television adaptation of the Culture, having acquired the rights to Consider Phlebas, the first book in the series of ten. Elon Musk names the SpaceX autonomous barges that catch his descending reusable rocket stages after intelligent ships from the series. This is a podcast version of the article of the same name in the TFIE Medium publication.