Shayne O'Neill

Tony: Have a read of Ian Banks Culture series. One of the basic premises of that is once super high tech and automation is so advanced, anyone can have anything they want, and we can entrust AI to run the place, the old economic and political labels would be pretty meaningless. Kind of like space communism, but with no governments (Because would government even make any sense in something as vast as space, when if you dont want to obey the government, you could just go off in space to somewhere else) and big friendly AI spaceships that leave humans to frolic in a sort of infinite fun world while the ship minds ponder the universe and how to make sure everyone, including the AI minds themselves, are all having a great time.