What the new “Terminator” Gets Wrong About Fate

Ian Rose
Ian Rose
Nov 2 · 3 min read

Don’t worry. This isn’t a joyless rebuke of a generally fun action movie. I’m not going to Neil Tyson you here.

Several doors, signifying choice.
Several doors, signifying choice.
There are very few royalty free images of actual Terminators, so we went with something a bit more symbolic.

This is a blog about the future, so even though we’re going to spend a lot of time talking about climate change, migration, automation and AI, science fiction is going to come up too. And science fiction that specifically deals with individuals’ ability to affect their…

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