Gattaca Essay Questions

The trigger for my report came from the film “Gattaca” in this film the director Andrew Niccol presents a future world where humans strive for perfection. This portray of perfectionism made me think deeply about our world and our search for a technological advantage/perfection in warfare and where this might take us. Because of this I constructed three questions to help me understand this topic of how humans strive to gain a technological advantage in warfare. My first question is: what attitude did people have towards implementing new technology into warfare? My second question is: what cause and effect did new technology have on warfare? And finally: what would war in the future be like? I developed these questions to help me think critically
To do this, I chose to focus on World War Two as this event demonstrates the first use of the atomic bomb. Source (http://world-war-2.info/atomic-bomb/) states near the end of WW2 American dropped its first atomic bomb code named: “Little boy” on the Japanese city Hiroshima. The bomb instantly took out 70,000 of the 250,000 people living there, within the following five years another 60,000 people would die.
It is hard of ignore the fact that even though most of the world is in peace we still cannot drop our weapons. Newer ways to create more deadly weapons are constantly research by countries in order to protect or eliminate a threat as fast as possible. It is evident that we still are not in true peace as we still refer to other countries as outsiders “Them”, this is due to the fact that we still do not trust one another very well and we feel threatened by the rapid development of technology from other countries. Even though we strive for better and bigger guns we have a great understanding of law. This prevents most people from committing nonsensical