Comment by AIPedant

On Twitter, Colin Fraser pointed out that Black Mirror was somewhat optimistic in that the horrible evil technology actually works as described[1].

Truly pessimistic science fiction would have

- people worshipping an AI God which is demonstrably dumber than a dog

- friendly humanoid robots which don't really understand how to walk down a flight of stairs

- gravitational warp drives which are purely cosmetic and cannot travel anywhere, though it leads to terrible cancer

- a Potemkin Dyson Sphere where only 5% of the panels work and the government blames out-of-system immigrants for the blackouts

[1] https://xcancel.com/colin_fraser/status/1911129344979964207#...