Too many visions of the future start with what technology can or might do and work from there. That’s completely the wrong foundation. Technologists should focus not just on the engineering minutiae but on helping to imagine and realize a richer, social, human future in the broadest sense, a complex tapestry of which technology is just one strand. Technology is central to how the future will unfold—that’s undoubtedly true—but technology is not the point of the future, or what’s really at stake. We are.
