- Elon Musk In January 2015 Musk announced that the autonomous spaceport droneships would be called Just Read the Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You — both General Contact Units from The Player of Games. A third, A Shortfall of Gravitas, followed. He has separately described himself as a utopian anarchist in the sense Banks meant. source ↗
Iain M. Banks's series of science fiction novels set in the post-scarcity, anarchist civilisation called the Culture — a galaxy-spanning society run by hyper-intelligent AIs (Minds) aboard massive sentient spaceships, where humans are free to pursue pleasure, art, or adventure without economic constraint. The series, beginning with 1987's Consider Phlebas, explores the moral dilemmas of utopia: how does a perfectly peaceful civilisation justify intervention in less advanced societies? What happens to meaning when all material needs are met? The Culture novels combine philosophical depth with space-opera adventure and have influenced technology culture from SpaceX's drone ships (named after Culture vessels) to discussions of post-scarcity economics.