Andrew Leigh is a Member of the Australian House of Representatives, and author of several books, including Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World and (with Joshua Gans) Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More "Star Trek" Than "Terminator" (MIT Press).

1. Why the Future Matters
2. Bad Bugs
3. A Second Venus
4. First We Got the Bomb
5. The Last Invention
6. What Are the Odds?
7. The Populist Risk
8. The Death of Democracy
9. Fixing Politics
10. The End
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