The development of artificial intelligences can have profound political implications. Science fiction literature can help to think about these political implications. The work of Iain M. Banks (the Culture cycle) can be used as a hypothesis on the role of smart machines. The civilization described poses challenges to political (especially anarchist) thought. Such a thought experiment helps to think about the computerization of many technical systems.

Linear and curved effects of time variances on entertainment expenditure trends are available. Income changes significantly affect entertainment spending under the constant relative prices. Unique development context of various entertainments significantly affect entertainment spending. Proposed track research can’t find the initial value difference of various entertainments spending.

Phatic technologies are technologies for relationships. We analyse the rise and necessity of Internet-based phatic technologies using sociological theories of modernity. Phatic technological habituation explains individuals’ trust in technologies for relationships across distances. Phatic technologies feed our need for personal and social processes that are highly reflexive.