“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
What exactly was the historical context of this statement he made, and what precisely did he mean by it?
The meanings I can thing of for it are:
- that all engineers, scientists, technicians, libraries(implicitly internet?), electronics devices and movie dvds and everything similar will be destroyed and noone will ever attempt to think about more advanced primate tools (with some brain restricting illness maybe?) until next war or
- humanity vanish, other primates evolve and war with sticks and stones or
- only one side wins, which enslaves other side and slaves are not permitted to use any metal tool including electronics also libraries are destroyed so maybe generations later, they don't even remember what world war was, then they just simply attack each other because any advanced technology will be perceived as "god" so they simply obey and continue attacking each other using whatever they have (sticks and stones)? [by "side", I don't mean any country or any religious group]