Here, we do have agency, and we can make a difference, but we ourselves are responsible to assume it, and this takes courage and honesty, which at last brings us to the purpose of art.
The next step up the AI ladder is artificial general intelligence or strong AI; this is an intelligence that can, at last, think as well as we can; we're probably about 30 years away from this.
As they belatedly realise that health systems will buckle and deaths mount, leaders are at last coming to terms with the fact that they will have to weather the storm.
Five years ago the making of such a programme would have been unthinkable, but now, according to Mr Hong, people are at last beginning to realise that gays are “not aliens”.
Pause here! The far-off world, at last, Breathes free; the hand that shook its thrones, And to the earth its miters cast, Lies powerless now beneath these stones.