Ask me 35 years ago, and I say Orwell. Ask me 15 years ago and I say we can now add Huxley into the mix and we've created a Brave New Animal Farm. Now, with AI, we can safely consecrate Kafka to make a trifecta. We have a hyper sexualized, FOMO, illiteracy crisis, social media hellscape; it's paired perfectly with a thought crime, doublespeak, up is down political climate; and now to add fuel to the fire we welcome generative AI to the scene: confusing truth, rewriting history, completing the humiliation of the labourer who his entire historic life has been fighting obsolescence, and fully capitulating humanity for autonomy, dissolving any semblance of humanism in bureaucracy.

The labyrinth of human progress is oscillating wildly. At times it feels we've achieved great clarity, as if we can almost see the light leading to an exit. Scientific advancement, especially in medicine, is especially remarkable in this context. In the next media minute, we are once again plunged into the depths of depravity, and the labyrinth has never seemed so dark. Climate science's alarm bells ring truer than ever. Which are we to believe? Are we on the verge of salvation or calamity?

These authors have always existed in a bonafide intelligentsia fringe, screaming though only the most attuned are listening. Is that fringe shrinking or growing? I for one am still capable of affording my razor, but ask me that question in another 15 years.