Top products from r/TheCulture

We found 27 product mentions on r/TheCulture. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/Local_Super_Cluster · 1 pointr/TheCulture

Yes, You may be right and I may be wrong.

But these changes are happening regardless - so I think it's worth following through the arguments, specifics and potential policies we might like to see enacted so that it works out for the best.

You know, we should think like Contact and formulate views and express them to the outside world.

Funnily enough companies right now are struggling with the concept of zero margin business. See Amazon/Wholefoods as a small example.

Or this : https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Marginal-Cost-Society-Collaborative/dp/1137280115

Rifling has a good website that explains tech and 'the end of capitalism' and how it all might work out.

And the concept of a Universal Basic Income is related to this. Or as workers are displaced by robots - perhaps giving ownership shares to all workers past and present.

These topics strike me as best considered with a Culture mindset and a Contact practicality. What society should we aim for and what should we do to achieve that?

I just realized something. Everyone on this subreddit IS Contact...


u/abadoldman · 5 pointsr/TheCulture

Found this on Amazon. The tracklist is included in the review and has some interesting songs: 1 -The Waterboys Don't Bang The Drum 2 -David Bowie Hereos 3 -Dreadzone Little Britain 4 -Warren Zevon The Factory 5 -Neneh Cherry Man Child 6 -Peter Tosh Get Up, Stand Up 7 -Devo Satisfaction 8 -Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant 9 -Radiohead Karma Police 10 -Jethro Tull For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me 11 -Kirsty MacColl Walking Down Madison 12 -Magazine Shot By Both Sides 13 -Horse Careful 14 -Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach 15 -The Ruts Babylon's Burning 16 -Ivor Cutler Unexpected Join 17 -Tasmin Archer Sleeping Satellite 18 -Richard Thompson 1952 Vincent Black Lightning 19 -Afro Celt Sound System Dark Moon, High Tide 20 -Mike Scott Love Anyway

u/mushpuppy · 1 pointr/TheCulture

The Lathe of Heaven is pretty accessible. It's a great story about a guy who claims that his dreams change reality.

The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are good starting points too.

u/Anticode · 2 pointsr/TheCulture

I'd start here, Dark Intelligence: Transformations

I read the whole Dark Intelligence trilogy and loved the universe so much I decided I'd take a look at the whole Polity chronological order.

I'm on the third to last book now... I've been on a binge for months now (and I read 2-3 novels a month).

My girlfriend asks what I'm reading and I say, "Neal Asher." She asks why I've been reading that book for months now. "I'm on book 12..."

Similarities to Banks:

  • AI ruled civilization
  • Aliens
  • Cyborgs and stuff
  • "High" tech (FTL, shields, etc...)
  • Drama between humans and AI
  • Eccentric and interesting AI with various personalities and forms
  • Ships and stations (and planets) are piloted (or watched) by AI of varying strengths and capabilities
  • Relatively "light" (easy to get into and follow along) reading

    Similarities to Watts:

  • Dark atmosphere
  • Evil/Questionable AI motives
  • Mean and mysterious aliens
  • People dying
  • People dying in horrible ways
  • A fair bit of "philosophy of mind" stuff
  • A fair bit of other philosophical questions and themes (where Watts hits you in the teeth with a brick, Asher hits you with a relatively dense pillow)
u/HarmlessSnack · 3 pointsr/TheCulture

Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe is my favorite coffee table book. (He’s the guy that makes XKCD comics.)

Giant detailed drawings of complex things explained using common language, and a candy coating of humor. Really fun book!

u/LokitAK · 3 pointsr/TheCulture

You should pick up the japanese edition of player of games too for that sweet sweet cover

u/CisterPhister · 1 pointr/TheCulture

You might enjoy this Atari coffee table book. I've seen it and it's quite rad!

u/CaptMelonfish · 5 pointsr/TheCulture

Give James S.A. Corey's Expanse Series a go, I've enjoyed them so very much:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1841499897/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_6iWbBb651W0TQ


They're Hard Sci-Fi (up to a point) but very human and a bloody good read. Leviathan Wakes is the first one, the Audio books are well done too.

u/pATREUS · 2 pointsr/TheCulture

Aha, good choice. I grew up with this one: https://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Foss-Chris/dp/9063325711 (this includes movie concept art which was only fully realised in Alien Covenant recently). The cover art is of the Leviathan, which was renamed and redesigned into the Nostromo for the first Alien movie.

u/yesofcouseitdid · 12 pointsr/TheCulture

Physical is £6.99 on amazon.

Virtual is $9.99 on the Googles.

These numbers are the same* number.

*or, close enough, and certainly not a 3x difference; in fact, the physical may even be cheaper, in this instance (I cba to x0.7 to check)

Edit: insanely, it's $14 for paperback in the US amazon, which makes zero sense to me. No wonder nobody in your country can read. This still isn't 3x $9.99 though. And! There are used ones for cheaper, although given your finnecky statements about DRM, I'd imagine you're not down for that.

u/Ruddur · 4 pointsr/TheCulture

I haven't read this myself, but it might help:

The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction by Simone Caroti

https://www.amazon.ca/Culture-Iain-M-Banks-Introduction-ebook/dp/B00WAKN7XK

u/InhibitorMedichine · 2 pointsr/TheCulture

The Geeks Guide episode is so good, I wanted to post that one. Simone Caroti gets The Culture so well.

In addition to Simone Caroti's book on The Culture, the Paul Kincaid book on Banks is absolutely incredible.