As the creator of the Oculus frighteningly confirms he’s designed a virtual reality headset that intentionally kills people, we look back at all the BlackMirror episodes that have come true ahead of the Netflix show’s return…
has seemingly predicted the future, and we doubt it will be the last. Indeed, as Brooker himself said during an interview withWith that in mind, then, here are theOne of season two’s most memorable episodes, The Waldo Moment told the story of a cartoonish political campaigner using racism and discriminatory language in a bid to get elected. The parallels in American society were all too clear to see when, just three years later, Donald Trump was sworn in as US president. Sigh.
Four years after the show aired, an unnamed MP revealed that the then prime minister, David Cameron, had put his penis in a dead pig’s mouth as part of an initiation ritual at university. “I did genuinely for a moment wonder if reality was a simulation, whether it exists only to trick me. Which isn’t meant to sound narcissistic,” Brooker toldBlack Mirror
episode was set in a world in which people could rate each other from one to five stars for every interaction they have, which allowed them to boost their socioeconomic status and gain certain luxuries.Somewhat worryingly, that same scale of popularity became very real in China thanks to an app called Zhima Credit.
Using big data to track and classify everything that citizens do, from their purchases, their pastimes and their mistakes, the rating system then ranked them according to their lifestyle. Anyone with 600 points and up might gain privileges , while lower scorers will have privileges revoked .Set in a not-so-distant future, The Entire History Of You sees everyone granted access to a memory implant that records everything they do, see and hear.
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