Banks, Iain M.
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Also known as: Banks, Iain
- se20e05: AI Models; The All Souls Exam; Melvynn Bragg as an Oxford Don; Grounding; Being Human; Worry About The Same Things
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … A thing I’ve banged on about too has been (ha, yet another science fiction reference) Drone auras from Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, where a bunch of …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … Musk (sorry) isn't even a decade older than me, loves the same science fiction, names his assets after Iain M. Banks novels, and clearly, decidedly doesn't …
- What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person … When I read that Iain M. Banks played Civilization that was a connection that I had in a way I never thought I'd experienced when people talk …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … wisely) missing out on by not having an adaptation of something from Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. Anyway. Fashion. You get a hint of this in Picard with …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … Terry Matalas, Twitter, March 1, 2022 ↩︎ Iain M Banks' Culture solved the problem of needing cup holders in modules etc by being able to snap-displace any beverage …
- Mist, everywhere … Fanfic set in the Iain M. Banks Culture universe I vaguely remembered reading fan fiction about what might happen if Iain M. Banks’ Culture encountered… something from another …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … Feels like we could do with more depth and nuance these days! Which collided with Iain M. Banks’ idea of an aura field , which would allow the drones …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … music as, well, music. * Joseph Heath has a point of view on Iain M. Banks' Culture that has been doing the rounds on how the Culture can't …
- End of Process
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- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … of science-fictional magic "terminal" devices that you get in settings like Iain M. Banks' culture novels where essentially you have a piece of jewelry that's a …
- What You Want; Messiahs; The List … Microserfs by Douglas Coupland Global Frequency by Warren Ellis Excession by Iain M. Banks Halting State and Rule 34 by Charles Stross Red Men by Matthew De Abaitua …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … suggested that perhaps the Federation operated on roughly the same principles as Iain M. Banks' Culture universe: that sentient beings minds are inviolable, but whatever escapes into the …
- Rate All The Things … instantiated products, objects and services? Because on the one hand we have Iain M. Banks' wonderful post-scarcity Culture, along with Star Trek, and on the other hand …