[tgv]

True, but that trace here is missing. There is no link apart from "Mead said something vaguely utopian", and that doesn't even seem specific for technology. In 1939, technology was not the most threatening thing.

[BlueTemplar]

You're joking, right ? By WW1 already, technology had changed war to the point that it became extremely economically destructive :

https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/world-war-i-battlefie...