The Terminator Index

Latest movement
Awaiting first reading.

All 44 components

One cell per component, grouped by category · select for detail

Constituents

Sort any column · select a row for canon, gap, evidence and movers
Index initialising
No component is published before its evidence resolves.

Where the systems live

Coloured by status · select a region to filter

Methodology

The arithmetic, in the open

The level

progress = (TRL / 9) × spec fraction

TI = 1000 × Σ(w · progress) / Σ(w)

Forty-four components across fourteen categories, total weight 313. Weights are editorial and published: they state how load-bearing a component is for fielding a Terminator, not how interesting it is.

Terminator Readiness Level

A one-to-nine ladder mirroring NASA's Technology Readiness Level, applied to a different destination. One is “the physics permits it”. Nine is “in routine operational use, at the required specification”. We score the best demonstrated system in the world, not the median one.

Spec fraction

How much of the canonical requirement the best real system meets. A mature, fielded technology delivering three per cent of what the films require scores 0.03. Each entry states the comparison, so the number can be argued with.

What moves it

Dated, cited, resolving evidence, and nothing else — papers, spec sheets, benchmark tables, filings, regulation. Retractions and failed demonstrations move it down. An index that only rises is not an index.