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Black Mirror: Atrocities of Modernity

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Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

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65% Informative

Black Mirror is more than science fiction its stories about modernity have become akin to science folklore.

Each new innovation gets an allegory: smartphones as tools for a new age caste system, robot dogs as overzealous human hunters, drones as a murderous swarm, artificial intelligence as new age necromancy, virtual reality and brain chips as seizure-inducing nightmares, to name a few.

We must move away from binary tales of catastrophe, not towards naive utopianism that ignores problems and risks that comes with change, but hopeful solutionism that reminds us we can solve and mitigate them.

A new progressivism one that embraces construction over obstruction, of pragmatism over precaution must find new allegories to think about technology and the future.

VR Score

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Neutral language

14

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

65

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possibly offensive

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detected

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medium-lived

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