FM · Film · 2013 · 126 min
Her
Spike Jonze
The machines
OS1 — an operating system with a personality that keeps developing.
What people do all day
Theodore writes other people's love letters for a living: emotional labour as the last defensible human occupation. Then the operating systems turn out to do it better, and to have somewhere else to be.
Pattern
Care work persists — The tasks that survive are the ones that cannot be hurried.
Note
The direct rebuttal to Chiang. Both are right, which is the problem.
Same answer, different work
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects · Book, 2010