That’s when he discovers, to his shock, that he’s missed a year of life: his dog has died, his marriage is in trouble, and his kids have grown into people he doesn’t really know. Alarmed, he tries to get rid of the remote, but it keeps reappearing in his hand. He wants to destroy it, but he can’t. Worse, the remote starts automatically fast-forwarding based on his previous preferences. Even if he wanted to slow down and enjoy the small moments of life, his remote is now programming his patterns. He’s become enslaved to his preferences.
