Especially on some of the more technologically advanced topics the average viewers might not be aware that those technolgies already exist in the early stages.
But yes, the execution is quite lacking (hopefully it's just a start?), with most of the content trying to mostly tick the content boxes rather than being of substance, and there being quite thin justification to the percentages. (What needs to happen for Lock Henry to go beyond 80%? I'd wager apart from that concrete instance happening we are essentially there.)
Hi, it's 2025. The whole internet has been like this for more than a decade now, and it's getting worse by the year!
It seems far away -- but really if Neuralink et al manage to correct brain disorder(s) in the near future, and slapped a subscription on it, we'd be there.
Many of which corporations exploited and/or mislead chiefs into believing the project would be safe.
Same premise, different package.
That said, I don't agree with the assessments that much. For example, the Metalhead episode which is about a robotic dog chasing people is stated as %40 achieved but IMHO it is %90 achieved and it just takes a will for this to happen. They are already doing it on the battlefield in Ukraine BTW, just needs better batteries for similar fiercity.
The theme of technology continuing without humans was treated in Ray Bradbury's excellent, melancholic, still-relevant tale written in 1950 "There Will Come Soft Rains". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...
This is basically the premise of that Black Mirror episode, except if the spammer had actually hacked you for real and wasn’t just shotgun-blasting the message to stupid people.
To me, they're just great SF stories (well, the first three(?) seasons before Netflix bought them and Americanized them): some poignant, some horror-ish, some uplifting.
I found the "unforeseen consequences" of technology fascinating, but that's just me.
LD&R ROCKED! At least the first season; I still watch it regularly (well, I did before Netflix EOLed my TV). Season 2 was forgettable. Season 3 kinda made up for Season 2.
Black Mirror is about technology, and the dangers of people.
Charlie Brooker loves technology and makes no bones about it. It is perhaps a degree of irony that so many watch Black Mirror and blame the technology because they fail to see the Mirror.
Much of the technology is dangerous in the way guns are dangerous.
It may be true that human behavior is what is reflected back to us, but the potential for danger co-emerges with the capability of the technology we’re using.
Very little technology is designed specifically to harm, but still more than I am happy with. On the other hand most would support the idea of employing such a means if their own survival is at stake. While it is easy to argue against attack drones in the abstract, when you consider the situation where Ukraine employed drones to effectively reduce the amount of bombing their country would receive, it's hard not to sympathise with someone who wants the bombs to stop.
I think I might use the term "Aw nope" for that. Or maybe an anagram of that to hide my disfavour.
I think that development of such things should be tightly regulated, but also that you should be clear to distinguish between things like that from things that are capable of doing harm or even likely to cause harm and how much intent it takes to cause that outcome. Angle grinders are very dangerous things, they harm quite a few people, but there is also an understanding that the vast majority of that harm is unintentional, and preventable with safeguards.
Rather it's talking about the present, by accentuating some trends of the present to make people think about it. Black Mirror in particular is all about that, it's exaggerating some trends from the present to make us aware of them and the potential consequences if pushed too far.
To me, Loch Henry is already reality. People treat true crime documentaries and podcasts as pure entertainment and lose sight of the actual people involved. What's the gap?
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-most-shocking-thing...
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