What Could Go Right

Designing Our Ideal Future to Emerge from Continual Crises to a Thriving World

By: Justin Bean

Narrated by: Dylan Wheeler

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Tired of all the doom and gloom? What Could Go Right invites you to ditch cynicism about the future, and build the one you want.

Instead of worst-case scenarios or Pollyanna optimism, you can envision an ideal world and be empowered to build it. The opportunity of our era is to transition to a sustainable, equitable, abundant global economy. When you rethink your mindset, understand tech and social trends, and design a future you want to live in, you can thrive by building a better future for us all.

Packed with insights, tools, and ideas for what an ideal future might look like and how to build it, What Could Go Right focuses on these three things.

Your Mindset: Rather than accepting dystopian tropes about our future, we'll look at the reality of our current time as the most abundant and empowered humanity has ever been—and witness it getting better. You'll explore tools and frameworks like Design Thinking, Three Horizons, Five Dynamics, and more, to turn inspiration into pragmatic thinking, planning, and execution.

Trends and Opportunities: Explore the empowering tools, sustainable shifts in industry and technology, and social evolutions that are making a more equitable, distributed, democratic, cleaner economy possible. The economic, climate, and social crises around us are accelerating the urgency for change and are inspiring innovators to create new tools and approaches—all to make the transition to a better future.

Your Vision of a Better Future: Start imagining what an ideal future might look like by making the most of existing technology and knowledge. With thought leaders and industry experts, you'll tour a future that is abundant, a Zero Marginal Cost Society, post-scarcity, and Omni-Thriving. Apply Maslow's hierarchy of personal needs to social needs, from physiological to self-actualization.

"We don't get the world we want simply by fighting the one we don't. We get the world we want by envisioning, designing, and building it."

©2022 Justin Bean (P)2023 Justin Bean

Uplifting and Thought Provoking Read

I found this book both inspiring and thought provoking, contemplating building a better, brighter future in our society and throughout the world. Highly recommended.