[4] The text-to-speech voices often display slight mispronunciations, which give the album a surrealistic feel regarding how technology sometimes fails to replicate human cognition.

"[3] Human Story 3 follows several text-to-speech characters, male and female voices, that repeat brand names, buzzwords and phrases like "IKEA," "GPS," "Starbucks," "market crash," "mobile payments," "FedEx," "smart car" and "latte" at musical swells and crescendos, along with detailed speeches.

[3] Musically, Human Story 3 is a modern classical album[3] that returns to the commercial-like, overloaded vaporwave style of Ferraro's Far Side Virtual (2011).

Most of the digitally made textures and clanging synthesizer sounds on the album blend in with organic instruments such as strings, woodwinds, pianos and professionally recorded real-life choirs.

"[3] Winston Cook-Wilson, writing for Bandcamp, observed influences from the works of Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie and Charles Ives in Human Story 3.

[3] Anna Gaca of Spin magazine compared the album's feeling to that of the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner (1982), where the record's mood of alienation and dystopia comes from how many of its elements representing AI are exaggerated or emotionally amplified.

[2] Human Story 3 was announced on May 18, 2016, with a trailer and Ferraro summarizing the album on Twitter as "a musing on hyper individualism and the marketability of neotenous plastics.

[13] On June 28, 2016, Vice Media's THUMP publication premiered the video for "Plastiglomerate & Co," which they described as a "Web 1.0 rendering of a busy metropolis, gross in its idealized cleanliness; in it, almost faceless, bots bustle about and trample each other in algorithmic harmony.