Chris Colbert was the Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs, where he worked
with Harvard students and alumni on how to turn nascent ideas into viable businesses.
Since his dysfunctional childhood growing up as the son of a four-star admiral and
being raised by an English nanny and a gaggle of Filipino stewards (yes, you read that
right), Chris has spent his life trying to understand humans, including himself. He
learned the hard way about how to look the truth in the mirror and then do something
about it. Fear was his friend, intimacy was his enemy. From there he went on to run a
bunch of companies, fail at a bunch of relationships, and ultimate end up as a born-
again everything, running the day to day of the Harvard Innovation Labs and writing his
ass off. But that's all drivel. You should read the book.

Introduction

PART I: THE TECHNOLOGY TRAIN

Chapter One How Technology Changed the World

Chapter Two The Growing Gap Between Us and It

Chapter Three Decoding Humans

PART II: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Chapter Four The Emerging Specters of Threat

Chapter Five Deepening Divisions

Chapter Six The Shifting Sands of Power

PART III: THE HUMANIST REVOLUTION

Chapter Seven Beginning with the End in Mind

Chapter Eight Establishing a New Paradigm of Rule

Chapter Nine Re-engineering our Systems

Chapter Ten Changing the Ways of Us

Epilogue Re-writing our Narrative

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