How do we preserve what makes us human in an era of extended uncertainty? Are we simply consumers shaped by market forces today? Will algorithms and artificial intelligence soon replace us? The author invites us to an unwavering, militant defense of our existence, our rights, and our freedoms. With references to economics and big data, neuroscience, cultural wars, and the rise of the far right, drawing from his experiences and on-the-ground reporting in major popular mobilizations from Athens and Istanbul to Washington, as well as references to his childhood in an English coal mining town, Paul Mason shows us how the concept of humanity has been eroded like never before in the past. In "Clean Bright Future," he argues that we are capable of shaping our future through language, innovation, liberating use of technology, and collaboration. He paints a picture of people as more than cogs, customers, or gears in a machine. A work of radical optimism for our challenging times.