It feels these days like the imagination is under siege. ChatGPT is writing iambic pentameter, building websites at the click of a button and removing the last jobs for which our children might have been qualified. What is going to happen next? The truthful answer is that no one knows. Great technological leaps (steam, electricity, the internet) tend to play out in unpredictable ways: as the American scientist Roy Amara once said of such revolutions, we over-estimate their impact in the short term and under-estimate their effects in the long term.