Here’s a shocker for you: Spike Jonze’s 2014 dystopian film Her, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who falls for a computer operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson, is set in 2025, not in some future light years away from our own.
The film showed a society that is defined by the deprivation of human connection, in which technology has advanced so far that nobody needs to talk in person any more. Everything can be done from the comfort of home using screens. How sad, we thought in 2014, how lonely! How great that we won’t ever have to worry about any of that.
