Are you excited about the future or are you worried? Are you expecting good things or more misery? These days, it seems like all around us, the future is getting bleaker and bleaker. Netflix and Hollywood are telling us about dystopian scenarios. The news is showing more reels of climate change disasters, economic issues, clueless CEOs and politicians. And of course, in the end, the robots will take our jobs, and then they're going to harvest our bodies for energy.

But despite all of that noise, I am here to tell you that the future is better than we think. I believe that human ingenuity, our science and technology can and will solve most of our long-standing problems. I also believe that human kindness and the ability to collaborate will prevail. But we're running out of time because the future is arriving faster than we think. Actually, the future is already here, we just haven't paid enough attention.

Science fiction is becoming science fact (*My 2016 film).  We are at a fork in the road: the next 10 years will bring more change than the previous 100 years.

We must make the right decisions, now - if we want a good future.

In the future, we're going to need to think wider, to think beyond profit and growth, to think about people planet, purpose and prosperity. We need a different logic so that our future can be good, and can be developed for all of us. We have a chance, now, to get it right for our foreseeable future, or end up in a bad place.

We're now at that point at where things that were science fiction are becoming very real; becoming science fact. That's about language translation, robots or artificial intelligence. And that makes a big difference. Because now in technology, the question is no longer if we can do something, or when or how, but why do we do something? And what do we want from it? So, in just 10 years, we're going to be at an entirely different point of our lives, where it's not about deciding if technology works, but what technology do we want? And is it going to be good for us?

But before we talk about building the good future, and creating the good future for us, we have to define what good is; what it means to you, what it means to us, what it means for our society.

You know, in many ways I think that in our society,  the definition of 'good' has been brought down to something very simple, meaning prospering, and having things... and having more things. And now we're finding out, at this very moment, that we need a little more than that, that we have to have a wider definition. So, it's about other people, it's about relationships, experiences, and then, it's about the planet - if we can maintain the earth as it is, going forward. It's about purpose, which means having a wider sense of what you are living for. And then finally, it's about prosperity, not just about profit - it's a much wider definition.

Let's have a look at some examples about The Good Future could manifest itself.

Imagine if you could eat meat without harming animals. I mean, I eat meat, but I do think that the future of food will be vegetarian. Some 30% of the world's global pollution comes from agriculture, farming and livestock. There's just no way that we can feed an eventual 12 billion people in this way. Fortunately, we are already inventing our future, with vertical farming, with plant-based meat, with meat from the lab - so we can solve this problem. The good future of food is sustainable, healthy and affordable for everyone.

Imagine if we can solve the world's energy problem. You know, I often feel really strange about how much energy I use, especially considering that I fly around the world to give speeches about the future. 75% of our current energy supply comes from oil, gas and coal - and this is an existential threat to our future.

Yet at the same time, we know that we have solutions like solar and wind turbines and renewable energies, and of course, next-generation nuclear (fusion). So, here's the question: We will have all the right technology, but will we have the will?

Imagine, education isn't just about downloading information. When I went to university, and then to music school, this is what I did. I downloaded things for later. But this will clearly not work in the future - there is too much information available. And after all, this is what machines do: they download information for later use and understanding.

If you have kids, you have to think about this. Our kids have to learn how to do things machines can't do. The good future of education is going to be about lifelong learning, on demand in all formats, and at very low cost.

Imagine if most of our routines can be done by smart software or machines. Imagine if work is no longer the center and the purpose of our lives. I tried for a long time to use technology to work less - and it hasn't worked out! But this is what the future holds: Technology will allow us to move up the food chain, leave routines behind and use intelligent machines to be faster and more efficient.

If you work like a robot, a robot will take your job. In the good future of work, our ultimate job is to be human!

Imagine if healthcare wasn't just about treating sick people, but actually keeping us healthy. You know, when I go to the doctor these days, I get a medication and that's the end of the story. We can do so much better. Technology can help us to use data to become intelligent, connected, holistic, and to think about food and lifestyle to go with our healthcare. When we look at the future of healthcare, it's going to be about being connected, customized, personalized, and affordable - about real health care, not just sick-care.

Clearly, we're now in a situation where we're realising that our old paradigm of profit and growth is ending, and business as usual is dead. Capitalism as we know it is unfit for this future. Now we have to design a new future based on a wider sense of goals.

So, what can business leaders and politicians do to create a good future? First, the stock markets have to embrace this idea of a wider target, of a wider goal of things that we want to accomplish. And every company has to be rated on performance on four issues, not just issue: People, planet, purpose and prosperity. Second, the story of the future has to be told by the people, the creatives, the society, all of us together not just by technology companies who are inventing the future, so that they can sell it to us.

The third one is this: we need every politician and public official to have kind of a driver's license for the future, to understand it, to plan for it, to be ready for it, to lead us into a great future. They need to be authorised and taught, and have a license to guide us into that future. Fourth, we need a council of the wise people. Think of ancient Greece: Socrates and others that talked about how we would exist in a new world. We need people like that to come together and tell us: What are the options, which way is the best to do, and what goes beyond economics and helps us to go to the further, human future.

But it's not just up to the politicians and public officials to create a good future. It's also up to us. So what can I do, and what can we do, together, to create that good future? First, we have to believe it's possible that we have a good future. Because as we believe, so we'll become, and then the good future has to be a priority for us. We have to spend the time on understanding it.

We have to learn, we have to study, we have to spend one hour a day in the future to help create it. I have to develop what I call the future-ready mindset. And then we have to make choices: Don't give your data to companies that will abuse it.

Don't do business with those that will not create a good future. Don't buy stock from companies that will not create a good future. And finally, if we want a good future, we have to be good.

The good future is entirely possible, and that's our choice. The only question is: Are you going to be part of it?