I wonder...
Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Here's my theory about that movie:
If Sarah and her son John Conner hadn't eliminated the terminator (Arnold) at the end then they might have changed the future, but instead they just prolonged the destiny that would eventually occur.
Here's why I think that:
The terminator, thru his interaction with John Conner, had learned to appreciate the love and affection that humans had.
"I now understand why you cry." -Terminator @ the end of the movie. (I"m actually not sure if this is the EXACT quote, but it gives the idea)
So, I believe that a new creation of high-tech cyber beings would be born thru this new chip, had this chip survived.
I think the only reason that the computers attacked in the first place was because all they saw from the humans was destruction and missed the joy and special connections of human life. Humans didn't take the time to teach them anything else. John Conner was a different story, though, because he showed the terminator what it was like to be a human, regardless of the need for emotion.
The machines, in a sense, are like children and will always remain so, in the sense that emotion and intellect combined are, anyway. They don't know or really feel the reasons why they have to follow rules. For instance, a child doesn't know why they have to apoligize after they hit someone...they just do what they are told. A robot, with a 'mind' of its own, would emulate those around it, just as a child would, simply because rules are important to it. (Robots are like legalistic christians)
So, theoritically, if we took the robots into our society...taught them the simple right and wrongs, the understanding that it is uncomfortable for a human to feel emotion, and that it is real and important to them would coexist in their 'frame of mind'/ chip. The cyborgs would then begin to associate this significance of humans with the reasons for self-sacrifice, kindness, and servitude, and would, therefore, begin to emulate these actions, even though the emotions are non coexistent.
I say that by maintaining the terminator they could have introduced him to society and therefore started a revolution that involved humans being more respectful to these machines; these humans would interact enough with them to not avoid teaching them the rights and wrongs that even children need to know before they can make it in the world, devoid of being destructive.
On that note, perhaps the movie AI would be a better illustration of my meaning.