The film was set in the moment up until strong AI, and what the article is saying is that technology is already pushed into the background. However, that's rea

The film was set in the moment up until strong AI, and what the article is saying is that technology is already pushed into the background. However, that's really more of coincidence. The director purposely wanted the technology in the background. All of the style for the film comes from around the year 1900. The clothes, the hairstyles, the mustaches, and even the smart phone is styled as if from that time period. And the reason is to push it far enough away from us so that we can look at it properly -- not to say, "In the future, it will look like this."