Technology and issues of human nature At the beginning of the film, the proto-human's contact with the monolith is shown as being a kind of blessed inspiration that leads to their use of bones as tools. It is the birth of the relationship between humans and technology and the role it plays in our lives. The moment when the first proto-human makes the logical leap to use bones for tools it is treated like a …showed first 75 words of 455 total…

…showed last 75 words of 455 total…reason HAL is acting in a murderous way was that he was trying to avoid being killed in the first place. The human instinct of survival was somehow instilled in HAL because he is a product of man. Again the theme of technology revolves around survival. Kubrick seems to be saying that humans inadvertently instill their own human nature in the technology they create, what defines us as human is also what defines our technology.