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by karaterobot
793 days ago
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I have a coworker who was tracking Black Mirror premises that were being taken as inspiration by people on the internet. This may be one of those. A lot of SF authors have expressed this idea: "I meant it as a warning, not a road map". I think I read either Neal Stephenson or William Gibson expressing this about their respective dystopias and the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were trying to implement them. Anyway, posting this comment so I remember to send it to her tomorrow. |
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So there's nothing fundamentally wrong in taking inspiration from sci-fi.
Sure the presented perspective is negative but that is because the producer explored local maximums to the benefit of the audience. They are obliged to paint technology in a certain way to captivate viewers.
Does that mean that the presented reality is the only possible one? Certainly not, that would be reductive.
Many popular technologies today are used to scam a defraud people. Does that mean said technologies are fundamentally bad? Not at all.
I use technology as a force multiplier.