Conclusion

Is violence inherent to technology or is technology neutral? Is the desire for self-destruction inherent to human nature? This concluding chapter explores these and other questions in light of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and the works of the popular scientists Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, and Yuval Noah Harari.