Mechanically, we're already there: driverless cars, Siri, Facebook ad-targeting algorithms that can pick at your most private insecurities.
It's a shame that you can't try a dress on to check the fit, but it frees you from insecurities that you may have as a woman.
These insecurities will be surprising to nearly everyone who has seen the 40-year-old Considine's work.
"I am so sick of people taking their insecurities out on me".
As their relationship deepened, Fred's insecurities came flooding back.
The zeitgeisty wallop comes in the words, which derive from a modern musician's insecurities but say so much about our brittle and uncertain times.
Nevertheless, the school he describes in his introduction to The History Boys is in every way one that I recognise, with its excitements, its insecurities, its snobberies and its occasional very real cruelties.
When I tell him that, for all his stated insecurities, he looks like the very picture of strapping Norse masculinity, he replies drily.
He enjoyed a long career thanks to his toughness and resilience (despite insecurities that demanded years of therapy).
It teased universal insecurities about having anything sensible to say (the remedy was an Economist subscription).
I'm also an Asian woman and as much I try to fight it, this identity plagues my darkest thoughts – my insecurities about beauty and success are rooted in a society where white means beauty and opportunity and non-white means ugliness, fetishism or under-representation.
