That’s kind of an accurate way to describe a lot of society these days though, from doomscrolling to phone addiction to social media disinformation to surveillance and tracking and advertising.
True, but these ideas were not quite in vogue in 2011 when Black Mirror first aired. The internet still felt like a wonder full of endless possibility. There was an app for everything. Personal data was not mined on planetary scales.
I think it was writer Daniel M. Lavery who described Black Mirror as, “What if cell phone… but too much!”
The title even refers to your phone screen.
It’s just a new generation of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, written by a comedian. It’s not supposed to be amazingly deep.
That’s kind of an accurate way to describe a lot of society these days though, from doomscrolling to phone addiction to social media disinformation to surveillance and tracking and advertising.
True, but these ideas were not quite in vogue in 2011 when Black Mirror first aired. The internet still felt like a wonder full of endless possibility. There was an app for everything. Personal data was not mined on planetary scales.
Yeah. It would be sweet to live in a world that doesn’t keep proving the cynics and doomsayers correct.
You do know that the elite actually use things pike Orwell’s 1984 and Black Mirror as suggestions?
accurate!