South Africa, May 13 -- Creativity: The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

So, what happens afterwards? What happens after a catastrophe? How do you carry on and what role does creativity play in all this? I started thinking about all this after reading about the end of the First World War and Swine Flu. What happened after that? The roaring 20's. That has a nice ring to it.

It was a decade of massive growth economically and creatively. Real GNP growth of almost 4.2% every year from 1920 to 1929. Jazz. Silent movies. You find something similar after the Second World War. The 1950's saw the economy grow in America by 37%. Rock and Roll. The golden age of Hollywood.

Now, before you say you are not an...