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A long time ago, in a land far away, they say it really happened: Albert Einstein was asked for paternity tips. \u201cI would like my daughter to be a scientist, too. What kinds of books do you recommend?\u201d According to a 1958 New Mexico Library of Congress journal, Einstein replied, \u201cFairy tales, and then, more fairy tales.\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We should talk about the importance of fantasy, whether you are a designer, illustrator, administrator or accountant; yes, being a human being, stories have the power to transform you, and by extension, everyone around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trigger for me to write about this was watching the adaptation of Sandman on Netflix, a classic graphic novel and one of the first to appear on the New York Times bestseller list. I\u2019m quite a fanboy of its author, Neil Gaiman, so don\u2019t trust me, but know that the TV adaptation was the most watched series in the world for three consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never liked superheroes. I thought they were fake. As the smallest teenager in my class, I found refuge in heavy metal, Edgar Allan Poe and Vertigo, the adult label from DC Comics (now DC Black Label), where heroes aren\u2019t quite heroes, and life isn\u2019t quite what we imagined when we were kids. Even so, I remember my fascination when I read that there was a library, in the Dreaming, that kept all the books ever written by humanity, as well as those that have not yet been written. These are there too, side by side, waiting for some dreamer to find them. If you think this is silly, I invite you to look around you. Look at everything that didn\u2019t come from nature: the chair you\u2019re sitting on. The device you are reading this on. The clothes you\u2019re wearing. Your desk. The pen on your desk. The room where you are. The house or the building. All of this was designed by someone. And before it was designed, it was imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chesterton said that fairy tales are not meant to tell us that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated. I love this idea. But also that dragons could be imagined. Combining dangerous reptiles with our limitation of being unable to fly, we idealize in an imaginary creature all the power we would like to have. Combining different elements to create something new is the closest thing to a recipe for creativity ever dreamed of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first time I used Midjourney, one of the tools that generate images by artificial intelligence from just one sentence, I was paralyzed. What to create, if I can create anything? I called my son and soon ideas came up: Cristiano Ronaldo as a pokemon. Naruto fighting Power Rangers in space. It works. They are already creating a plugin for Figma and Fast Company reports that architects are using the tool in their creative process, saying that \u201cIt\u2019s almost like you\u2019re speaking a building into existence.\u201d Another user of this tool won an art competition in Colorado, leaving many artists outraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the ability to draw or paint is no longer necessary to create a drawing or a painting, what really matters (Einstein already knew, of course), is our ability to dream and imagine.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Fabio Haag<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein\u2019s Folklore<\/em><\/a>
Sandman is the #1 @netflix show in the world for the third week running<\/a><\/em>
Every Version of that Chesterton Quotation about Fairy Tales and Slaying Dragons<\/em><\/a>
An Upcoming Figma Plug-In Uses Stable Diffusion’s AI Powers to Design Ideas<\/em><\/a>
AI tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney are helping architects\u2014and their clients\u2014design new buildings<\/em><\/a>
He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?<\/em><\/a>
Midjourney<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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