Re:hm (Score 5, Insightful)

If you watch the credits for the Terminator series, Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd give some credit to Harlan Ellison, a crusty sci-fi writer who among other things wrote a great screenplay for I, Robot. What I've read of his works seem to me to be skeptical of the Religion of Technological Progress, but I think it's fair to say that they (and the Terminator series) are not anti-technology, but rather support the idea that since technology, a tool used by men to further their purposes, is subject to certain properties of humanity: a) men don't always make wise choices b) men don't always have good purposes. That's why T2 has the scene with the little boys fighting with toy guns, and the disinterested observer [the Terminator] remarks "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves". This is not a statement about the evilness of technology, but rather the evilness of men.