Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove doesn’t quite fit the bill in the sense that the technology that’s threatening the earth isn’t physically embedded in everyday life, but obviously its existence (i.e. the possibility of a ‘doomsday machine’, or a kill code transmitted to bombers) is accepted, and affects people’s view of their own safety on a grand scale. (Or this would be pure sci fi rather than satire.) The two alternatives posed to us–create a Nazi-esque underground ‘utopia’ or let the surface of the earth be exterminated–are highly dystopian, and direct results of handing control over to computers.