Where every home is a fortress, every hotel a bunker, and restaurants have their own radar domes

There was a time when the future arrived in chrome and optimism—flying cars, glass towers, a vague belief that technology would make life lighter, faster, and perhaps even kinder. 

In the version we have instead, the towers still rise, but they hum with radar. 

The sky is busy, but not with commuters. 

And the word “amenity” now includes intercept capability.

Welcome to the Safe City, a place where security has metastasized into architecture.