Too often today, the only narratives that matter are personal ones, and many have seen a widening gulf between their individual hopes and dreams and those of the world around them. Too often, as well, people feel like powerless observers of forces and trends they cannot control. The rekindling of social imagination is one aspect of taking back

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Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial

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But it was only a sliver of who I am.

The rest? The thinker, the writer ... was left behind . Not because it lacked value. But because I didn’t know where it belonged.

And that’s not just my story. It’s systemic .

We live in a world full of misplaced people. Told to optimize their LinkedIn profiles instead of understanding where they truly belong.

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