Every day, we make decisions. Thousands of them. Some mean very little once the moment’s gone – Black shirt? White shirt? Rice or pasta? Single or double? – but others have far more resonance and can change the course of our future in a way that’s hard to unpick. Currently, says Johannes Eckerström, humans are at a fork in the road. We cannot get rid of technology, the internet, being digitally close to one another even when you’ve never met, data, massive population and massive consumption – but there are two very different futures with them. One is “Mad Max, Terminator 2, dystopia”. The other is a more hopeful place where cooperation, unity, peace, using our tech and intelligence for the greater good of all mankind. “That way is Star Trek,” he explains with a smile. This is one...
