It’s been a cliche for a long time, for the Occident to talk about war being a driver of technology. To whatever extents, that might be true or false, and one could say that obviously in military contexts emphasising war, such a declaration can only be a self-fulfilling truism. Not because of some exclusive and essential link between war and techne, but merely because all things develop out of their own necessities, including war.
Given the emphasis of such cultural militarisation, together with all its celebratory paeans of contentious regimentation, why not philosophically thematise those factors of friction in fiction?
That’s something Heraclitus didn’t neglect.