It’s easy to approach the future as a race to solve planetary problems like climate change and environmental destabilization that arise from human-actions–fixing the air we breathe, the ground we rely on, the water we depend on, and the myriad planetary systems that intertwine through them.
Yet such a planet-forward perspective runs the risk of discounting the importance of people as creators, inheritors, and beneficiaries of the future. And on its own, it makes it hard to navigate the increasingly complex dynamics between emerging technological capabilities and the futures we aspire to.