Emerson Sam Navaya

WHEN THE RIVER CHANGED COURSE By Emerson Sam Navaya There is a story I often remember whenever people declare the death of human creativity. When Facebook first arrived, many people predicted the funeral of newspapers. Some condemned it from pulpits and public platforms. Others called it satanic, believing that no decent society could survive such an invention. They thought newspapers would disappear, journalists would become irrelevant, and reading would become a thing of the past. Time has passed. Newspapers still exist. Journalism still exists. Books are still being written. What changed was not the value of writing, but the way writing reached people. The wise learned to publish in both print and digital spaces. Those who resisted every change spent years fighting yesterday while tomorrow quietly arrived. Now history has introduced another visitor: Artificial Intelligence. Again, panic has become louder than understanding. Some insist that AI has come to bury creative writing. Othe...