Skynet

...scenarios. There's "The Terminator" of course, though that movie's fiction pins the end of the world -- at the cold, metal hands of Skynet's machine armies -- sometime in the post-2000 teens. Still, it was a grim future for humanity that...

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...ones. Sleepless in Seattle: The Re-Rise of the Machines: Tom Hanks' kid turns out to be John Connor's liver donor in the future, so Skynet sends a Terminator back to hunt him down. His girlfriend Jessica livens up their horror-filled...

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...the U.S. Air Force purchased Cyberdyne and the newly formed Cyber Research Systems Division began in-house development of a new Skynet. Skynet was first built as a "Global Digital Defense Network," given command over all computerized...

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Thus the evolutionary progression, from yeoman farmer to factory worker ... to Dilbert in his cubicle. With the ruthlessness of Skynet in "The Terminator," computerization in the tertiary sector is now committing mass Dilberticide,...

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John Connor (Christian Bale) is the leader of the human resistance and we finally get to see him bring the fight to the evil robots of Skynet. The universe created by Cameron has become a truly rich one, spawning a (criminally underrated)...

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So, in that case, a well worded missive isn't to be expected. Then why haven't time travelers deleted this post? Skynet pulls that shit all the time. Why not just send the next Terminator back in time a day earlier than...

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...Chapter 11 protection, has hired FTI Capital Advisors "to evaluate strategic alternatives for the company. " In other words: Selling off Skynet! Halcyon, which made the most recent "Terminator Salvation" film and also "owns the...

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...begins with our world's end, our demise hastened by (stop me if you've heard this) our mad obsession with technology. Just like Skynet in the original "Terminator," "9's" machines grew bloodthirsty and wiped out humankind. All that's left...

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...film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the...

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Looks like some sort of Cyberdyne Systems human feeder used by Skynet. It's actually an early concept proof of the Chime Generator for the 10,000 Year Clock. It can generate unique chime sequences every day for 10,000 years, and there are...

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