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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    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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