This was the year that ‘Generation Snowflake’ arrived – at least in the pages of the Collins English Dictionary, where it is one of “10 words of 2016”. According to the lexicographers, the term describes “the young adults of the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previous generations.”

The barb is not one that the society shown in 70s science fiction film Logan’s Run would ever have to suffer. But then there are no generations in the 23rd Century – everyone is dead by the age of 30.

The cult classic turned 40 this year. It depicts a dystopia in which computers run a society that survives beneath vast geodesic domes. There are no families – the young are raised by machines – and no work. The ever-young citizens are free to get high and hook up. There is even a Tinder-like handheld device to summon lovers to your bedroom at will.