I’ve been thinking about gorgons – you know, the sisters in the tales of old that went around turning everything they surveyed into stone. We seem to be hell-bent on plasticising our world. From the artificial intelligence that is already a genie out of the bottle to those teeny little particles of plastic that have infiltrated nature and are now bobbing about in our bloodstreams. There is every reason to be unnerved and afraid; what fools.