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Novel·1988AI-generated draftSource unchecked

The Culture: The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

Space-living elements of seven or eight humanoid species break from their states and corporations, machine sentience arrives at the same time and agrees to help, automation ends scarcity, and Minds vastly beyond humans run the ships and habitats benevolently because they are built to want experience rather than territory; the novel shows the result from inside and shows the Culture toppling the Empire of Azad by steering one game player to beat its Emperor at the game that legitimates it.

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Turning point: UnspecifiedOriginal source
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Television and film·1966AI-generated draftSource unchecked

Star Trek

Gene Roddenberry and contributing writers

A social crisis, a nuclear war, and a privately built warp flight bring Earth into contact with the Vulcans; recovery and interstellar cooperation follow and culminate in the Federation, with the route to abundance asserted rather than shown.

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Turning point: 2024–2161Original source
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Novel·1965AI-generated draftSource unchecked

Dune

Frank Herbert

People hand their thinking to machines, a few people use those machines to enslave the rest, a century-long religious crusade destroys the machines, and a ten-thousand-year civilization is built on the prohibition and on human substitutes that concentrate power in new hands.

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