'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?
