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Reminds me of Desk Set (1957).

  Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is a library reference clerk stuck in a dead-end relationship with a boring television executive (Gig Young). Her life is thrown into turmoil when computer expert Richard Summers (Spencer Tracy) enters it. He has been assigned with automating her department, and she is fearful that Summers' new computers will automate her out of a job.
It turned out be prophesy.


I always thought Desk Set was a bit crazy, but it seems remarkably close to what AI is currently providing (including the warts).


If you like old computers I highly recommend this movie, what a fun window into how people thought about them at the time.


Go check out the movie poster. You’d never guess the plot from it. “Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn make the office such a wonderful place to love in!”




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