The world is in a state of chaos, writes CLSI Faculty Fellow, Braden Allenby, for Slate. The speed at which technological innovation is progressing is causing destabilization in many areas (geographic, cultural, social, etc.). The chaos stems from “the rejection of the modern, technologically sophisticated, complex, multicultural, and multipolar world.” Fear, ignorance, exclusion, fanaticism and the instinct to survive leads to the retreat to, or sustenance of, medieval or fundamentalist views and beliefs, thereby fueling unacceptance, agitation and retaliation against “[a]ccelerating technological, social, and cultural change.” We are seeing a relapse of the disease that lead to war just a century ago, for like the dissatisfaction and unrest brewing back then, similarly rooted in “[a] world sunk in adulation of a golden past that never was, and enthralled with the romance of anti-modernity” the fearful, the ousted, the anti-scientific, the zealots and the insecure are mistakenly, once again, discounting “the benefits of the world that actually is.”