In the movie Strange Days, we see that it is possible to live experiences of others through a contraption that allows people to be “wired” in. By putting on the head piece, a person can see as well as experience an entire event as if he/she was there. The analogue mentality that is embedded in every person from the age of ten and older requires us to question if this was really the person’s experience. The initial recording of the event was not the original experience, but the user of the headpiece does, in fact, experience the same event. The recorded experience is no less of an experience than the event being recorded, and is therefore original to the person as well.

The early stages of this new era are apparent in many ways including: we still rely on the vocabulary of analogue to grasp digital concepts, the government has not yet imposed a system of monitoring use, and authors and artists are losing their ownership of their work available on the internet. This is addressed in Strange Days because there is a question of authorship, ownership, and authenticity of these experiences. Wiebe and Dornsife would argue that digitally produced experiences are equally real and original to each person, but the initial recording is where the copying is taking place since the source is not digital, but none thereafter. This also means that if a symphony was digitally put together and recorded, there would be no “copy” thereafter, which is a difference between analogue and digital. If a person were to make a copy of a tape off another tape and so forth, we would be able to trace the order back to the source because of the recording quality. In Strange Days, every disk is as good as the source.

Although the movie got rid of the monitor, the experience still was controlled with a type of disk player and head piece unlike the device used in eXistenZ. Strange Days exemplified the nostalgia of analogue technology versus eXistenZ, which was able to move on to that next big technological advancement back to the organic where people do not need metal machines anymore.