Trying not to spoil a 40+ year old story, but Asimov eventually retconned that the flourishing of humanity was driven by a benevolent AI behind the curtain.

For many, the Culture is an utopia to aspire to, for some is something to run away as fast as possible. Banks himself described the dichotomy.

It is quite independent in Italy actually. The government is pushing for a constitutional amendment to help "fix" this feature. There is going to be a referendum on the change very soon.

Isn't the CEO taking themselves out of the equation in this demo?

> Can we get a flag feature?

there is one already, and you would know if you weren't a new account complaining about "What happened to this site" after a comment from a 20yo account.