Been a while since I last watched Booker's Black Mirror. I still remember being unsettled by the first episode mainly because I thought that it hit too close to reality. Lo and behold, we have an almost real life situation with the rumour by a Tory who made a claim about former PM Cameron...lol
Why we should all be afraid of Black Mirror:
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1. That time the Prime Minister [BLACKOUT]had sex with a pig[/BLACKOUT]
Black Mirror: National Anthem (S1): The infamous episode where a terrorist captures the Duchess of Beaumont, and will only release her once [BLACKOUT]the poor Prime Minister (Rory Kinnear) has had sex with a pig live on national television.[/BLACKOUT]
The Reality: In a bizarre twist of fate, David Cameron was [BLACKOUT]rumoured to have had, er
relations with a dead pig's head.[/BLACKOUT]
2. Digital Life after Death
Black Mirror: Be Right Back (S2): A women replicates her dead boyfriend using tech that filters together his personality via social media accounts.
Reality: This is already happening, with Bina48 being one of the most advanced examples. Shes a social robot who has been created using video interview transcripts, laser-scanning life mask technology, face recognition, artificial intelligence and voice-recognition technologies.
3. Sky plus for the brain
Black Mirror: Entire History of You (S2): Using memory implants in the head called grains, everyone can record everything they do, see and hear, as well as play back any moment with on-screen redos.
The Reality: Samsung recently patented a live-stream contact lens, which takes a picture whenever the wearer blinks. The lenses are hooked up to a smartphone, which receives a live stream of whatever the wearer is looking at.
4. Smartphone Dystopia
Black Mirror: White Bear (S2): Hordes of people mindlessly follow a girl. They watch her every movement from behind their smartphone lenses, a silent audience stalking her for sheer entertainment.
The Reality: Pokemon Go became a global obsession this summer, gluing thousands of people to phone screens as they hunted for augmented reality creatures in the real world. People quit their jobs, trespassed, discovered dead bodies, fell off cliffs, crashed cars, broke into zoos and even kept playing after getting stabbed.
5. The future is not bright for bees
Black Mirror Hated in the Nation S3: Without giving away any actual spoilers, this episode features a swarm of mechanical bees, developed after the real honeybee died out.
Reality: The Black Mirror team recently discovered that mechanical bees are already being developed. Harvard have a swarm of 60 mechanical bees with an identical function to that depicted in Black Mirror and, once youve seen it, youll understand why thats so terrifying.