South Africa, Jan. 30 -- This moment is often framed as an existential threat to many industries, creative chief among them, but I believe we have entered an era of something far more powerful: another creative revolution where technology doesn't replace human imagination, it amplifies it.

We've seen it happen before, albeit on a more limited scale.

Printing was never the same after desktop publishing upended the traditional methods of the time.

Tools like Photoshop and InDesign replaced more manual efforts with click-of-a-button precision and made creative craft and excellence accessible to the world, not just those lucky enough to score apprenticeships or be accepted to expensive tertiary institutions.

If the Renaissance expanded hu...