a “futuristic” society of human-machine hybrids where we’ve traded our cherished qualities of intuition, empathy, and creativity and the soul-stirring bonds of love, intimacy, and sexual conception for the convenience of AI that creates our music, poetry, and art, and virtual realities that replace genuine relationships and human contact.

We need to give the voice of the cynical, skeptical grouch that patrols the borders of our imagination a rest. After all, “Dangerous limits have been placed on the very possibility of imagining alternatives,” insists scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis. “These ideological limits have to be contested. We have to begin to think in different ways. Ou

“To be aware of . . . the market of competing dreams is quite important, when we think about what kind of a new story . . . we should be able to tell,” says Indra Adnan, of the political platform Alternative UK. Indeed, we must urgently transition from our current provincial, chauvinistic, and hierarchical nightmare to a planetary vision of human c