The paradox is that mathematical physics has imagined it, and confirmed the accuracy of that imagination to within the first second of time.
That doesn't mean getting out of print, but it does require a greater focus of attention, imagination and resource on the various forms that digital future is likely to take".
What explains this enduring grip on both the public and political imagination?
But Apfel has seized the imagination not as a couture fashion plate but as an example to a free-spirited, adventurous New York mindset that, these days, seems in danger of getting lost beneath the anodyne beauty of a Manhattan aesthetic that worships cosmetic dentistry and blow-drying above individuality or creativity.
But until they scored there was little imagination in their football.
Some say Africa's biggest tournament has failed to capture the world's imagination this time but there have been some surprises.
The short version: Babies and toddlers need imagination, not instant gratification – which is what screens often provide.
When I'm not otherwise occupied, the individuals in my life rear out from the corners of my imagination, each a potential enemy.
That can mean both those at the very top of the social ladder and those at the very bottom: in the populist imagination, elites work hand in hand with "global finance capitalism" but also pay too much attention (and money) to the poor who do not really belong to us and yet somehow live off us.
And yet – more than 500 years after he designed it – Da Vinci's bronze horse still tantalises the human imagination.
In an age in which everything is seen, everything is analysed and nothing is left to the imagination there is something romantic about memories that are yours and yours alone.
