This film is a computer animated tale about a grungy robot named Wall E. His job is to clean up the polluted earth while mankind lives in outer space: mankind will return to earth once it is livable. Wall-E falls in love with the shiny new robot Eve, who was sent to earth to find plant life. Wall-E follows her into outer space where the human race is entirely dependent on robots for even the smallest everyday function.
Mankind is clearly living in a dystopia in this film: people sit in chairs and zoom around a giant aircraft. All they look into is a screen in front of their face. Robots clean them, bring them food and dress them: they do everything for them. This world seems to be what Ray Kurzweil describes as singularity: "a world where there is no distinction between the biological and the mechanical or between the physical and the virtual reality" (2006, p.39). Kurzweil sees singularity in a positive manner while in Wall-E, negative aspects of singularity is evident.
In Wall-E, there is a clear warning for people to not become so reliant on technology. In the movie, one technology-dependant woman loses the function of her technological equipment. She is fascinated by her surroundings: with the screen directly in front of her face before, she hadn't looked at anything around her. Even today, many people are unaware of the things around them because they are so preoccupied with various robotic gadgets. Wall-E warns that we should be cautious about technology taking over our lives.