CLEAR BRIGHT FUTURE

Thrilling brilliant radical an admirable defence of humans against machines GuardianA passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of PostcapitalismHow do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces A sequence of DNA A collection of base instincts Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A I anyway In Clear Bright Future Paul Mason calls for a radical impassioned defence of the human being our universal rights and freedoms and our power to change the world around us Ranging from economics to Big Data from neuroscience to the culture wars he draws from his on the ground reporting from mass protests in Istanbul to riots in Washington as well as his own childhood in an English mining community to show how the notion of humanity has become eroded as never before In this book Paul Mason argues that we are still capable through language innovation and co operation of shaping our future He offers a vision of humans as more than puppets customers or cogs in a machine This work of radical optimism asks Do you want to be controlled Or do you want something better