For me, this is all a huge disappointment. I was brought to technology by the extraordinary optimism that buoyed the Western world back in the 1990s. And I think it’s become urgent to reconnect with this optimism as threats to our way of life are looming from so many directions. This is as much a challenge for Western governments as it is for the t

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Here is the problem: The future visions that are put out there into the world are either commonplace, boring, meaningless, (corporate) agenda-driven, uninspiring, or all of the above together.

The reason for that, in my opinion, is that our minds are stuck in old ideologies, old systems, and old narratives, which prevents us from thinking outside th

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