Imagine an advanced alien civilization.

It's hard for me to imagine without some technologies. It must have some forms of AI, it must have some forms of robust smart contracts, it must have encryption.

Are they using paper money? Paper ballots for elections? What else seems implausible?

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I think that in Orson Scott's cards book, he writes about this somehow. I read the books a long time ago, and I don't quite remember if he wrote about this specifics.

How does a hive mind deal with the speed of light?