Dehumanization of warfare as a factor of the global fear of death

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2019. Volume 4. No. 2. pp. 200-207.

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Stanislaw Lem, a science fiction writer and futurologist, foresees a radical change in military technologies by way of miniaturization and full removal of manpower from the military sphere. At present the development of minute remotely piloted vehicles is already in full swing, so that one may envisage a future total dehumanization of the armed forces. Army military units may be even represented by molecular compounds capable of coalescing seconds before the target. Dehumanization will cause fuzzy boundaries between an act of God and an act of sabotage due to the identical results. Thus technical progress changes existential fear of death into the fear of Doomsday on the politically separated planet.