Autonomous imagination is increasingly hard in a world where ranks of professionals do our imagining for us. Politicians, communicators, ad-men, artists: many people creative collective imaginaries – from migrants to the banana taped onto the wall – that are presented obsessively and in which we feel like we are taking part (commenting, liking and sharing), though our creative contribution is equal to zero.

But to take back some control of change, it is fundamental to reclaim imagination, not delegating it to an elite concerned first of all with saving its own neck. The process is tiring: imagining the future demands study and speculative experience. I’m not talk about futurology, but about a science of scenarios based on a comparative method, for example with respect to history. This means that if we want to imagine the future of the planet after the pandemic we have to study similar psychological and social scenarios of humankind’s past. From there, by analogy and with adjustments, we can make new hypotheses, without falling into the trap of dystopia.