In the end, the film does not take on these hard questions, presenting instead a rather benign view of a robotic future. The corporate designers of these operating systems are neither present, nor are their economic interests in such developments ever raised. While the OS’s systems do abandon the humans, they certainly do them no lasting harm. The visual metaphor of the all-seeing eye of Samantha via the eye of the cell phone pervades the movie. She has a window on the world through his movements, yet there is no hint of the surveillance and invasion of privacy this implies, apart from her ever so helpful organizing of Theodore’s email. In our post-Snowden age, this is surely a rather sentimental reading of how ubiquitous computing will affect our lives.