In Age of Imagination, Icelandic author Bergur Ebbi takes readers on a conceptual journey through the history of AI, comparing it to his own personal development and the fate of his home country, Iceland. The story traces how the technological upheavals of the last decades have reshaped the way we think, create and relate to one another, and how, even as we grow more connected on screens, we drift further into isolation from each other and from ourselves.

Drawing on personal experience alongside sharp cultural analysis, he makes the case for imagination itself as the thing worth protecting: the capacity for language, storytelling and original thought that no amount of technological change can substitute for.