We have been underselling the future. In fact, the future will be neither dystopia nor utopia (which is an actively harmful dichotomy) it will be what we do the work to make it. And the best way to the brightest future is to focus on what we CAN do, and make sure we are working to get there. Between climate change, the impact on the future of work by intelligent automation, misinformation, and more, humanity faces several exponential changes and existential threats simultaneously. Yet there are reasons to lean into hope: emerging technology, for example, also brings with it tremendous power and offers the potential to solve human problems at scale. Achieving the best outcomes possible now is largely a matter of collective action and political will. The best way indeed perhaps the only way to confront the challenges we face and build a better tomorrow is to allow ourselves to envision the brightest future possible, while at the same time acknowledging the ways the future could go dark and working to prevent them from happening. Kate O'Neill, author of Tech Humanist and Pixels and Place, explores the ways we have already begun to solve human problems at scale, and makes the case for an approach that's both hopeful and strategic as our best chance at a truly bright future.

Kate O'Neill is known as the "Tech Humanist:" a top speaker, author, advisor, and media commentator on digital transformation and innovation insights, and how emerging technology and other change at scale shapes human experiences. She is founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory and thought leadership firm helping clients understand the implications of emerging technology on humanity, artificial intelligence ethics, and other topics that matter, and committed to improving the future of human experience amid exponential change. She is the author of A Future So Bright, Tech Humanist, and several prior books. Kate has over 25 years of experience in digital innovation including having been one of the first 100 employees at Netflix, built Toshiba America's first intranet, and led one of the first digital strategy and analytics agencies.