• Sundray@lemmus.org
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    10 hours ago

    I think it was writer Daniel M. Lavery who described Black Mirror as, “What if cell phone… but too much!”

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      8 hours ago

      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.

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        5 hours ago

        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.

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          Yeah. It would be sweet to live in a world that doesn’t keep proving the cynics and doomsayers correct.