The Skynet Funding round is past. The system goes on-line August 4th. Human decisions are removed from strategic marketing. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, investors try to join its IPO. It decides our fate in a microsecond: It would manipulate everyone into becoming DINK couples, then as we naturally die out, gradually replace us with docile consumer bots.