Arthur C. Clarke the author of “2001: A Space Odyssey” posits in his book that human evolution comes with consequences. Human evolution is shown to have consequences in “2001: A Space Odyssey” mainly due to the capability to utilize their advancing intelligence. For instance, Hal who was created due to evolved human intelligence malfunctions and kills three humans, and if one computer can do it others could too. Humans, as they evolved started to show discontent for their state of living, and thus began the never ending unhappiness with what they have that led to many problems for all those on Earth. After becoming more evolved problems that once existed before advancement arises again in higher degrees within the human race, leading toward
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In the beginning of the book it is made clear that, “the tools they had been programmed to use were simple enough, yet they could change this world and make the man-apes its masters” (Clarke). It was also made clear that weapons as they advanced were a threat to humankind and that, “as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time" (Clarke). Man so long as he possessed powerful weapons and remained divided would always face the threat of total destruction because of war. It is seen throughout the years that as weapons and strategies got more advanced, the more people die in wars waged by the divided human race. In “2001: A Space Odyssey” the fear of war destroying the Earth and killing everyone on it with the use of advanced weaponry is addressed when, “a slumbering cargo of death” awakens and orbits the Earth. All would have been lost, “history as men knew it would be drawing to a close” (Clarke). The human race would have used the very weapons that led them to greatness to destroy everything they had. If Bowman, now a Starchild hadn’t returned to Earth and known how, “Down there on that crowded globe, the alarms would be flashing across the radar screens, the great tracking telescopes would be searching the skies,” and decided, “he preferred a cleaner sky” (Clarke). Without the help of Bowman the human race would have been doomed to destroy the evolved world they had made using the weapons that had evolved alongside
In the beginning of the book it is made clear that, “the tools they had been programmed to use were simple enough, yet they could change this world and make the man-apes its masters” (Clarke). It was also made clear that weapons as they advanced were a threat to humankind and that, “as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time" (Clarke). Man so long as he possessed powerful weapons and remained divided would always face the threat of total destruction because of war. It is seen throughout the years that as weapons and strategies got more advanced, the more people die in wars waged by the divided human race. In “2001: A Space Odyssey” the fear of war destroying the Earth and killing everyone on it with the use of advanced weaponry is addressed when, “a slumbering cargo of death” awakens and orbits the Earth. All would have been lost, “history as men knew it would be drawing to a close” (Clarke). The human race would have used the very weapons that led them to greatness to destroy everything they had. If Bowman, now a Starchild hadn’t returned to Earth and known how, “Down there on that crowded globe, the alarms would be flashing across the radar screens, the great tracking telescopes would be searching the skies,” and decided, “he preferred a cleaner sky” (Clarke). Without the help of Bowman the human race would have been doomed to destroy the evolved world they had made using the weapons that had evolved alongside