Thought-provoking and in parts somewhat frightening book, but the author's conclusion is reasonable - that any future, or any succession of futures, is possible except a return to a capitalist system in which the behaviour of the wealthy is restricted by their need for human workers (who are rapidly being replaced by automation) to produce profit. Redistribution of resources from the 1% to the rest of the population is one of two key requirements for a non-nightmare future, but the 1% is not likely to go along with this willingly, and with protest of any sort increasingly treated as criminal by an ever-more militarised police force, the road to a non-nightmare future might be rocky indeed.