The future ain’t what it used to be, to quote Yogi Berra. We chat with Theo Priestley -- a former tech evangelist for companies like SAP -- about the future of work, AI as our leader, and a coming’golden age or renaissance of human creativity.

Or how the future could really suck thanks to surveillance capitalism.

He's a TED speaker -- and has organized a TEDx event -- and has written for Wired, Forbes, the BBC, VentureBeat, and other media outlets. He now runs an "anti-consultancy," where he tells clients what they don't want to hear.