On the other hand, work that requires a high degree of imagination, creative analysis, and strategic thinking is harder to automate.
Despite its spatchcock genesis, it hangs together well as a piece of drama, particularly when this degree of imagination and vigour is lavished upon it.
So anything that isn't strictly necessary – from forming a football team to cake decoration via installing silicone implants in your chest – involves a degree of imagination and creativity.
Nor will it be disputed that it has done so by selection for a kind and degree of imagination, and therefore credulity, which, over those many millennia, made those of our ancestors with theorybuilding minds more likely to pass on the relevant genes to their descendants than those without them.
I flew, I fought!" President Reagan, who like Professor Ellis was gifted with a high degree of imagination, on various occasions told various listeners, including the prime minister of Israel, that he had been "there" at the liberation of the German concentration camps in the spring of 1945.
When he decided to take the offensive and attack on the final day of battle, he did so with a degree of imagination, foresight and courage that none of the Byzantine commanders managed to display.
Success in this effort requires a capacity for immersion and a degree of imagination, and whatever his shortcomings as a prose writer and a storyteller, Andrew Miller is endowed with both".
