Iain M Banks most recent Culture novel, Surface Detail, dealt with the idea of Digital Heavens, and of course Digital Hell's. They are run by religious high tec

Iain M Banks most recent Culture novel, Surface Detail, dealt with the idea of Digital Heavens, and of course Digital Hell's. They are run by religious high technology civilizations. A virtual hell is a nasty place where sinners are copied into post death, for eternity. Sometimes young sinners are given day trips there to straighten them out, before death. He talk a little about it in this wired interview: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/iain-banks/all/1 http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/iain-banks/all/1