‘I can’t remember how long it lasted, but I remember it not being long. ‘By the time we were around 16 we ended up dating, for a long time she didn’t quite know whether she had feelings for me, but we eventually started “going out” as you’d call it back then. ‘It was just an overwhelming awe that someone could be so interesting even though I knew almost everything there was to know about them. Nothing would ever happen between us further than staying up all night to play games or watching funny YouTube videos together. ‘We spent a lot of time around each other, and then starting staying at each other’s houses by the time we were around 14. ‘Our friendship just grew out of common interests – and a lot of time spent redialing the phone every hour in the evenings to avoid our parents being charged for the calls. ‘I must have been around twelve when we first met, as we had just started high school. But learned it’s ok and actually healthier for me to do this.’ ‘I’m with someone new, not had much luck on the dating scene but just enjoying discovering myself as I think after that relationship ended I had this fear of never wanting to be alone.
‘He is now engaged to a woman and is happy, and I wish him the best. But obviously I’ve moved on since then and have learnt a deeper meaning of the term. We were together for eight years and it eventually came to an end after a few years fighting backwards and forwards. He was bisexual, although at the start told me he was gay. ‘We still speak, we are both madly in love with each other, we tell each other every day how we still feel, and we have agreed to meet end of January to see if we can rekindle the love story. ‘I rang her and we finally met up ended up being together over a year until it got to the stage of where we both wanted different things. My feelings did not leave for her one bit so I called it a day with the girl I was with at the time. Hoffman's short story "The Sandman", published in 1816, in which a young man falls in love with a beautiful but nearly-mute woman, only to later find out that she is an automaton.‘Around 3 months after this situation I ended up in a relationship which lasted two years but while this was going on we still spoke. The idea can be found in literature as early as E.T.A.
Boy falls in love with automaton story series#
Charlie Brooker's satire series Black Mirror recently tackled the developing intelligence of technology in an episode called "Be Right Back" - the story of a grieving woman who begins using an online service that almost perfectly imitates the speech and personality of her deceased boyfriend, based on everything ever posted on his social media accounts. Unconventional though it may be, the concept of love of between a human and an AI is not a new one.
This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all." To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. "In the not so distant future, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. The title, while it may or may not have particular significance with regards to the plot, is not exactly eye-catching, but the subject matter certainly is. The film is now set for a US release on November 20th, 2013, according to Box Office Mojo's release calendar. This was probably not the best release date for Her to have ended up in, since it means that Jonze's film will be directly competing with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which is out two days later.
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