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Why It Matters Now.
The £146 billion case for creativity.
Here is a fact that surprises almost everyone who hears it. The UK’s creative industries are worth more to the economy than aerospace, automotive, life sciences, and oil and gas combined.
Not nearly as much. More.
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AI can write the essay.
That’s exactly why creativity matters more.
A teacher wrote in The Times this month that he can no longer tell a pupil’s essay from a machine’s. He finds it worrying. He is right to. But the worry he names points to a more useful question than the one he asks.
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What employers want is made in childhood.
Talk to managers hiring out of university this year and the same thing keeps coming up. The graduates who struggle are rarely the ones short on technical polish. A machine can polish. The ones who struggle are the ones who cannot read a room, hold a disagreement without folding, or take an idea nobody asked for and carry it through to something real.
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What a child knows that a machine doesn’t.
Ask any five-year-old to draw you a picture and watch what happens. There is no hesitation. No worry about whether it will be good. The crayon meets the paper, and a whole world arrives: a purple dog, a sky full of suns, a house with a door bigger than its roof. Children create the way they breathe. It does not occur to them to ask permission.
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