The risks and dangers of man's actions, especially as it relates to technology, has almost always been a prevalent subject in science fiction.
Science fiction writers, as a matter of genre and subject, typically try to ask the bigger questions about humanity and its relationship with scientific discovery and technological advance. Sometimes executed with elegant finesse, other times a painful blunder with laughably crude and cringe results, all the way back to the beginning.
The risks and dangers of man's actions, especially as it relates to technology, has almost always been a prevalent subject in science fiction. Science fiction writers, as a matter of genre and subject, typically try to ask the bigger questions about humanity and its relationship with scientific discovery and technological advance. Sometimes executed with elegant finesse, other times a painful blunder with laughably crude and cringe results, all the way back to the beginning.