Also The Culture: We have nearly as many citizens living in virtual realities as we do interacting with the physical world as their primary mode.

Also Also The Culture: How we learned to stop worrying and love the AIs that guide the 'economy' and everything else.

Also Also Also The Culture: Our AIs can do really cool subspace explosions around themselves and survive, leading to a shortening of the war by (I actually forget the real number) nine months.

Also Also Also Also The Culture: You want a tail this week? Cool. You want a penis next week? Cooler. You want to breed by sporulation while eating the flesh of humans? Dude, absolutely sick, and not telling us we were eating humans until afterwards? Siiiick joke, dude! (This is well done in context, I'm just funning)

(And, finally, sadly, in relation to our current times...)

Also Also Also Also Also The Culture: Oh, the war has you bummed out, man? Just hop into animated sleep for however long you want - yeah, current average time is 200 years it looks like - and we'll wake you up to see how things are.

The Culture was a great set of books.