Episode 4 - Her and The Robot Apocalypse

The Non Critic

The Fourth Installment of The Non Critic is here! In this episode, we discuss 2013 Spike Jonze movie 'Her'. I am joined by Amos who featured as one of the guests on our very first episode on Birth of a Nation. We get into our favourite parts of the movie; how technology in Sci-fi movies has changed; the future of technology and Artificial Intelligence; whether the internet and apps have helped us or hindered us in forming relationships and curing loneliness and whether we are a lot closer to the robot apocalypse than we think.
It all gets very deep as usual, but of course, we are still joking around at the thought of Facebook selling all our data to their corporate overlords and Tinder potentially slowing procreation for the foreseeable future; more to keep from crying than anything else. In the words of the great Rick from philosophical cartoon 'Rick and Morty' - 'The answer is don't think about it.'
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Movie of the Month: Her http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
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References
Colour Palette used in movie: http://hazlitt.net/feature/lonely-palette-economy-colour-spike-jonzes-her
Alien movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
Robo-cop movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/
Ex-Machina: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
Microsoft AI bot gone wrong: https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism/
How Google stalks you: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/08/how-google-collects-data-about-you-and-the-internet/
How Social Media Sites make money: http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/032114/how-facebook-twitter-social-media-make-money-you-twtr-lnkd-fb-goog.aspx
TED Blog article: http://blog.ted.com/what-data-is-being-collected-on-you-some-shocking-info/
The singularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
iRobot: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/
Existential Dread meme: https://me.me/t/dont-let-the-existential-dread-set-in
South Park Episode: https://www.grayscott.com/seriouswonder-//south-park-isnt-wrong-anti-technology-fanaticism-is-stupid-af