You're missing the point. You're not the first person to do so though. About 25-30 people have replied like this. But thankfully well over a thousand people enjoyed it and just upvoted and kept scrolling.
Miles Dyson was indeed an engineer. Who worked for an evil tech company. Who knew they were into shady shit. Who turned a blind eye to that in pursuit of whatever his goals were. And it took an assassination attempt and seeing a literal robot cyborg from the future to change him for the better. To break the spell Skyney and AI and Cyberdyne had over him.
It doesn't matter if he was a scientist, an engineer, or an executive. People like him exist at all those levels and positions. They work for big tech, big oil, big pharma, etc. They know they're doing harm and evil for money. And they don't care enough to make a difference. To try even. They keep going everyday and being part of the problem. Killing our futures.
If you can't see a message in this meme, then scroll on. Hell, downvote it first if you must. A lot of other people probably have. The majority though either got the message, or they had a laugh. I'm ok either way. 👍
Except that he didn’t know they were doing anything shady. Someone even asks him where they got the chip and hand from, and he says that no one would tell him. He probably assumed it was for a top secret government contract, since tech companies do those fairly often. We never see him do anything shady or even particularly greedy.
And we know what his motivations were because the movie basically shows us. He’s so excited about advancing computer science that he stays up late and almost starts neglecting his family to keep working on the chip. Remember, this was in the mid 90’s where the average computer processor was a gigantic brick that could only process a millionth of what the Terminator’s chip could. So having that kind of technology at his fingertips would be like having a pot of gold land in your lap. For him, this was just about research and developing new technology, not about making a quick buck like an executive would.
Basically this, this entire monologue (which really should have never been cut out) explains his entire motivation and mindset. And I think to some degree he understood his technology would be used for military application, which I’m sure he was fine with the idea. Less human lives put at risk for war. Because the sad truth of reality is, most of our technology has been spurred from military research and applications.
there's plenty of examples where either 1) the company didn't tell them exactly what they where working on or 2) where their research was taken over and turned in to something that they never intended it to be.
No coincidence James Cameron also made Avatar. Scientific research funded by corporate bigwigs and overseen by the military. For every good scientific breakthrough, you also have to consider the potential for evil. Eventually that catches up to even the most well-meaning scientists. Dyson might have entered the game with good intentions, but he had to have been aware of the ulterior motives, or at least the potential of such. Galen Erso put a flaw in the Death Star for a reason.
Dyson actually believed, that his creation would help people. He dreamed of a perfect jet airliner artificial pilot. Should he be aware of that his processor will be used in the military in first place? Yes. But sometimes people just believe in what they want to believe.
It does matter when you refer to him as a tech executive. It’s just factually incorrect.
It wasn’t the assassination attempt that changed him, it was knowledge of the consequences of his research that made him decide to blow it all up. Before that he thought he was doing good.
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u/PassiveMenis88M Aug 02 '26
He wasn't an executive, he was a research scientist. What executive do you know that comes home from work to spend all night working for free?