How to Fall in Love with the Future

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of uslike threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of daily life, climate activist and Transition Network cofounder Rob Hopkins responded the way a lot of people did: by starting a podcast. But it wasnt any ordinary podcast. In each episode, Hopkins and his guests would time travel together to the year 2030walking down imagined future streets, talking with imagined future neighbors, visiting imagined future local businesses. While Hopkinss guests came from all walks of lifeeconomists, politicians, bakers, comedians, novelists and morethey all shared a willingness to suspend their worries about the future long enough to mentally inhabit and then describe a world they were thrilled to be a part of. What Hopkins discovered was no less profound: this simple exercise of visiting a positive future forced him to rethink the work hed been doing as a climate activist for decades. How to Fall in Love with the Future is the result of that radical disruptionand Hopkinss deep dive into the people and movements throughout history who have used visions of the future to inspire positive change on a large and dramatic scale. From the life and writings of musician Sun Ra and the history of Black utopian movements to the latest neuroscience on what goes on in our mindsand heartswhen we time travel, Hopkins brings essential new thinking to anyone overwhelmed with dread and anxiety for the future. He asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imaginingand then buildinga world we were deeply in love with? Rob Hopkins puts imagination back at the heart of future-dreaming, offering us an irresistible invitation to dream bigger and then make those dreams a reality.Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics