I would like to register my strongest possible endorsement of the article's mention of Iain M. Bank's Culture series. Since discovering them a few years ago, I

I would like to register my strongest possible endorsement of the article's mention of Iain M. Bank's Culture series. Since discovering them a few years ago, I have basically been obsessed with them, to the point of sort-of beginning to believe that the greatest possible mission in life is to work towards bringing about the soonest possible advent of a Culture-type society, any enabling technology, any small step.