[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I don't think the Terminator franchise was initially or necessarily anti-tech so much as a morality play about human responsibility and the inevitability of consequences which humans use technology to tried and somehow avoid. Judgement Day is inevitable..

I think the first one didn't even think it through that much, instead just wanted to be a total mind fuck about a future apocalypse which created itself and be this horror style thriller. That the Terminator was a machine in a way just made it a more frightening monster. T2 emphasized the deeper aspects of the morality play by emphasizing the conspiracy aspect