![]() Which is why when a random kiosk advertisement asks him to buy OS 1 (by ‘Artuit’), the first learning operating system, he doesn’t think twice. Theodore is a lot like anyone going through a dive – future, past, or present. In Theodore’s world, people don’t spend their lives staring at smartphone screens like we do today. Everything is a little less hectic and more serene. Cars, one of the largest devices we own, are also gone – replaced with super-fast subways, beautiful high-rise walkways, and mass transit. Though there are video games, desktop PCs, smartphones, and earpieces everywhere you rarely need to touch a screen, and there isn’t a mouse or keyboard in sight. The slightly-futuristic version of Los Angeles he lives in is filled with voice-controlled gadgets that all work seamlessly together. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) lives in a world that’s getting past the awkward phase of augmentation we deal with today. They continue to learn and evolve, as do our demands upon them, and many of us are already willfully giving them zetabytes of our personal thoughts and habits, hoping they’ll help us navigate the ever-more-complex world that the last generation of devices and services is forcing us to participate in. ![]() We carry around a growing number of devices designed to perform a growing number of tasks for us. In 2013, we live in an early age of augmentation. ![]() In ‘Her,’ writer and director Spike Jonze takes our growing reliance on technology to an uncomfortable extreme: Could we ever rely on technology not just to assist us, but to complete us through love? ![]()
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