All Day

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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.


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