Spoiler-Alert!
This post contains spoilers for the episode "A Taste Of Armageddon" of the series "Star Trek: The Original Series" (TOS S01E23).
It always seems amazing how people in the past - when popular science fiction was still in its infancy, so to speak - thought of humanity's relationship to technology in the future. Sometimes we are dominated by it, it itself becomes our greatest enemy, and sometimes it is an instrument that serves our own progress. The hopes and fears reflected in it are almost as numerous as the stars in our sky. This ambivalence is expressed in a strikingly witty way in the series "Star Trek: The Original Series", if nothing else.