Genes, Technology, and Apocalypse: An Epilogue for Humanity

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
	References
Part I: It’s in Our Genes
	Chapter 1: Modern Humans: Attempting to Draw a Dividing Line
		References
	Chapter 2: Gatherer-Hunters or Hunter-Gatherers: “The Killer Awoke Before Dawn”
		The Hunting Hypothesis
		The Origin of the Hunting Hypothesis
		Noble Savage or Born Killer?
		References
	Chapter 3: Back to the Chimpanzee
		The Common Chimpanzee: Neighborhood Bully or Spiritual Forebear of Modern Humans?
		The Bonobo
		Who Is the First Ancestor?
		Entrapped in the Chains of Memory of That Abyss
		References
	Chapter 4: What Happened to Neanderthal? (We Killed Him Off)
		References
	Chapter 5: Collapse of the First Line of Defense: It’s Not Us; It’s in Our Genes
		References
Part II: It’s Technology’s Fault
	References
	Chapter 6: Technology As Metaphysics: Heidegger’s Attempt to Exonerate the Nazi Movement
		Heidegger and Nazism
			“The Führer Himself and He Alone Is German Reality and Its Law”
			The Black Notebooks
			Metaphysical Anti-Semitism
		The Essence of Technology According to Heidegger
		“Agriculture Is Now a Motorized Food Industry, the Same Thing in Its Essence As the Production of Corpses in the Gas Chambers and the Extermination Camps”
		Exonerating the Nazis from the Genocide of the Jewish People
		References
	Chapter 7: Techno-Science: A Dynamic of Complete Annihilation
		The Tragedy of Science at Its Peak
			“A Very Wobbly Unstable Drop”
			“People Must Learn to Prevent Catastrophes”
			The Complementarity Principle
			Attempts to Stop
			Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
			Was It Really an Inevitable Dynamic?
		Robert Oppenheimer: Technical Sweetness
			Who Was Robert Oppenheimer?
			Was an Atomic Bomb the Only Way to Dislodge Hitler from Europe?
			“What If the Nazis Get It first?”
			“This Is a Weapon Which Has No Military Significance”
			Oppenheimer’s Lowest Point
			“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”
			“I Feel I Have Blood on My Hands”
			Technical Sweetness
		References
	Chapter 8: The Collapse of the Second Line of Defense: It’s Not Us; It’s Technology
		References
Part III: Apocalypse
	References
	Chapter 9: The Bomb and the Apocalypse: Only a God Can Save Us
		The Danger of the Bomb
		The Bomb As Techno-Scientific Poetics
		Only a God Can Save Us
		How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
		References
	Chapter 10: Utopia and Dystopia
		Utopia: An Introduction
		The Enlightenment Concept of Utopia: The Desire to Dominate the World and Humanity
		New Atlantis: “Enlarging the Bounds of Human Empire, to the Effecting of All Things Possible”
		Eugenics: A Wonderful Homogeneous World
		A Brave New World
		Fragments of Salvation Made of Enriched Uranium
		References
	Chapter 11: Conclusion
		References
Afterword
	References
Appendix: Autobiography of the Last Human
	References
Name Index
Subject Index