Comment on “Transcendence” and Hollywood’s bizarre techno-idiocy

“Transcendence” and Hollywood’s bizarre techno-idiocy

Alcon Entertainment/Peter Mountain In Spike Jonze’s “Her,” Scarlett Johansson plays an operating system who becomes a human being’s lover and then transcends him, moving into some numinous and ethereal computing cloud like the distant deity of liberal Protestant theology. Software engineers and artificial-intelligence theorists groused about Jonze’s portrayal of the social and technological future, which was perhaps more fanciful than rigorous.

 

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