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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by noir_lord on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:23AM (#11535085)
The system you are talking about sounds like a cross between a direct democracy and a post-scarcity communist society, if you've not read the works of Iain M Banks you should check them out, you are pretty much describing The Culture :).
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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by LesZedCB on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:32AM (#11535160)
> The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian society

Woah, yes, that's going to number one on my reading list. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by noir_lord on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:37AM (#11535209)
IMO possibly the best sci-fi ever written, the stories are incredible and his writing style is sublime.

I envy you getting to read them all for the first time.

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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by LesZedCB on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:44AM (#11535256)
I'm reading the Mars trilogy right now. It's also really good.
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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by icebraining on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:42PM (#11535674)
Haven't read the others, but Red Mars is excellent, and better than Culture, in my opinion (though the latter varies in quality).

For another vision of a futuristic post-scarcity anarchist adhocracy, see James P. Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear, which features less "magical" AI and is more of a reflection on cultural conditioning.

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