THE TOYS ARE EXTINCT AND SO IS CREATIVITY

“The Toys Are Extinct and So Is Creativity” How the death of real play is creating a crisis of imagination. On a quiet morning in Dubai, author and entrepreneur Dr. Abhishek  Gilara watched a young girl cry over a mobile phone taken away by her mother and realized something profound. Childhood had changed. In this deeply reflective and research-backed book, Dr. Gilara explores how the extinction of toys has led to the slow disappearance of curiosity, creativity, and emotional intelligence in the digital generation. Through personal stories, scientific insights, and lessons drawn from his own life and works, he reveals: • How toys once trained the brain to create, imagine, and solve. • Why gadget-dependence is weakening children’s creative and emotional wiring. • The science of play and what modern kids are truly missing. • How his own childhood experiments became the roots of his creative success. • How parents and educators can rebuild curiosity in a distracted age. This book is not a nostalgia trip, it's a wake-up call. It reminds us that the future belongs to those who still imagine, and that imagination begins not in a device, but in the hands of a child who is free to play, fail, and create. If toys built the creative thinkers of yesterday, this book may just help rebuild the creators of tomorrow.