For years writers have been plagued by the need to hide their identity, and specifically their gender, depending on their era and genre.

So, where to go now? What delights and treasures can we seek out once the curtain has been lifted?

In the future there will be a national need to express the grief and trauma that this pandemic has created… for this we will need The Arts.

The active nature of creativity has long been what drives all sorts of artists out of their armchairs.

Finding a way to journal that suits the individual is essential and offers insights into ourselves as well as creative opportunities to plumb the depths of our being for inspiration.

Creativity is something that we actively learn. It is very much part of our survival mechanism as a species.

The question is not about destruction of the past, or the erasure of history but about how past events, past behaviour, and past ideology can be given a, potentially unwitting, platform and credibility in the present.

“… any progress made in past years by projects ensuring the survival of particular species and educating people into looking after their native ecosystems… will be eradicated in the face of this new situation.”

The Arts and Humanities offer us more than ‘just’ problem solving, they offer us the movie reel, as well as the means and the reasons for creating the necessary artefact.

In every way there is potential for technology to mitigate the impact of human behaviour on the natural world.