As a society, living in a technological age, we have become incredibly used to rapid change. Sometimes it feelslike the one constant we can rely on is that everything will change. For millennia humankind lived in caves, scrawling drawings on the walls. The Stone Age was 2.5 million years long, then came the Bronze Age and, with it, urbanisation, which lasted 1,500 years. The first Industrial Revolution lasted just 80 years (1760 – 1840). Before we reached our current, digital age, the Wright Brothers perfected powered flight and just 66 years later, our species had escaped Earth's gravity, traversed the vacuum of space and landed on the moon.

Ninety per cent of architects will lose their jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the design process, according to designer Sebastian Errazuriz. The New York-based designer made the controversial claim in a series of movies posted on his Instagram account. "I think it's important that architects are warned as soon as possible that 90 per cent of their jobs are at risk," he said. "It's almost impossible for you to compete" with algorithms he said, adding: "The thing is you're not that special." Born in Chile and raised in London, the artist and designer has courted controversy before, most recently by proposing to turn the fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral in Paris into a rocket launchpad.