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The three dreams about the future of security that are not likely to come true anytime soon

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We as humans crave order and simplicity. This makes intuitive sense: our brain seeks patterns, and we want to organize chaos into models we can understand. Look at the human body: there are layers on top of layers on top of layers - cells, organs, neurons, hormones, and the like; we’ve disassembled the complexity into separate disciplines that we can describe, analyze, teach, and specialize in. As humans, we are also looking for resolutions: if there is a problem, we want to see it solved; when someone is telling us a story, we want to hear its ending. We know that what has a beginning has an end and that a lot of what we see around ourselves is cyclical: after sunset, there will be a sunrise, and after Winter will come the Spring. We don’t like things that are unfinished, and this need to see the ending is developed at a very young age; remember how often kids start crying if parents don’t finish the bedtime story, stopping it in the middle instead? In pursuit of simplicity and resolu

We as humans crave order and simplicity. This makes intuitive sense: our brain seeks patterns, and we want to organize chaos into models we can understand. Look at the human body: there are layers on top of layers on top of layers - cells, organs, neurons, hormones, and the like; we’ve disassembled the complexity into separate disciplines that we can describe, analyze, teach, and specialize in. As humans, we are also looking for resolutions: if there is a problem, we want to see it solved; when someone is telling us a story, we want to hear its ending. We know that what has a beginning has an

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