@BrianRoemmele
Elon Musk painting the ultimate post-scarcity future: AI + robots → unlimited production → universal high income → money becomes meaningless → we design dream homes on demand, travel in tunnel EVs or electric VTOLs, and live for fulfillment, not survival. As he mentioned it is straight out of Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, I would read them all to understand the future. But start here: Consider Phlebas: an epic space opera showing the Culture at war, full of pirates, megastructures, and a glimpse of what true abundance looks like (even if seen through an enemy’s eyes). This is the future we’re building and will arrive at.