At an indeterminate point in our future - some say well within 20 years - computers will exceed human capacity and intelligence. And here's the kicker: It is from this point that we - as humans - can in no way predict or even comprehend what will happen in the development of this new super-human intelligence.
I thought Judgment Day was meant to have already happened and that we are now in the middle of the war against the machines ?
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.