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Our liveliest connections with others, or with a piece of art, or an experience, are invisible (no hardware), yet they are the strongest and most profound parts of life.

Humans are motivated by community. We are interested in helping others. We aren’t just faking it – not just playing for ‘likes’. Compassion is real.

This future isn’t about tools or operating systems; the future is about co-operating systems.

We have signed up to levels of surveillance dictators could only dream about – and struggle to enforce. And we’ve done it freely, willingly, actually without noticing, in the name of connectivity and ‘sharing’.

Exceptional women, like exceptional men, lead the world forward – but if we get caught up in the exceptionalism narrative, we are in danger of dragging an out-of-date story into a future waiting to be told.

One click on a cashmere sweater and forget Googling the theory of relativity – Einstein will be wearing this season’s colours as you scroll down the ads that demolish concentration and serious thought.

Biohack excitement is still a geeky-guy homerun. The websites, the reading material, the vision, the propaganda, are overwhelmingly male-authored and male-centric. The same is true of transhumanism, and its follow-up, post-humanism.

Exceptional women, like exceptional men, lead the world forward – but if we get caught up in the exceptionalism narrative, we are in danger of dragging an out-of-date story into a future waiting to be told.

The word Luddite still means an old-fashioned type who is anti-progress. But the Luddites of the early 19th century were not against progress; they were against exploitation.