ray kurtweil reviews her and thinks “samantha herself i would place at 2029, when the leap to human-level AI would be reasonably believable.” if high waisted pants make a come back now, then that might enough time for them to come back again given the shorter and shorter trend recycling. so we could really be sitting around in high-waisted pants, falling in love with siri and cortana which some will name clippy with a retro digital hipster sensibility. it will take about that long for google to relent and rebrand its avatar from glass to t-800.