Well I'd like to think Charlie Brooker, like many of us, could clearly say where humanity was heading. Some of the episodes that were considered far fetched 15 years ago are probably considered plausible at best and likely at worst now.
Seems like many films and books have been taken as inspiration for making "hypothetical futures" true.
E.g. Her - take AI as your girlfriend... was creepy then, still is now.
Sometimes good people are able to think like villains and predict their next moves, sometimes villains themselves declare their intentions via proxies.
Well I'd like to think Charlie Brooker, like many of us, could clearly say where humanity was heading. Some of the episodes that were considered far fetched 15 years ago are probably considered plausible at best and likely at worst now.
Some episodes are currently being played out live in Ukraine.
Too many people seem to have taken it as a todo list instead of a warning...
I'm sure Black Mirror could offer up a cautionary tale like Don't Create The Torment Nexus
(https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538)
https://xxcancel.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
And it would still be shot down by optimists as "just fiction".
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Seems like many films and books have been taken as inspiration for making "hypothetical futures" true. E.g. Her - take AI as your girlfriend... was creepy then, still is now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
Sometimes good people are able to think like villains and predict their next moves, sometimes villains themselves declare their intentions via proxies.