It has been 10 years since Theodore, a thirtysomething writer in a dead-end job, fell for his AI assistant, Samantha, in the Spike Jonze film “Her.” The offbeat love story and its stars, actors Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, charmed the critics and made a not-too-distant, hyper-connected future, where extreme loneliness drives people to seek affection from their technology, feel believable. (Actually, it’s not all that fictional. This is already happening.)
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