The Future Starts Now
So, a friend of mine told me about this English TV show he was watching and was “super great!”: Black Mirror. This TV displays the impact of new technology on Human beings. And even though it is a different TV show from what I am used to, it is probably the most interesting one. All the episodes are so right. Each episode stars new actors, a new city and a new storyline. All the episodes are so interesting that I do not really know where to start. It would be too long to talk about all the episode.
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In another episode, a grieving girlfriend buys an artificial replica of her dead boyfriend. A friend tells her that there is a way to communicate with her dead boyfriend. After finding out that she was pregnant, she tried and… It replied. “It” and not “He” because we know – and at the beginning she knows too – that it is only a robot that goes through all their Facebook, Twitter, voicemails and so on, in order to know everything that the couple has been going through and in order to be able to duplicate his voice. How crazy is that! But then, she thinks that her boyfriend is actually not dead. She wants to find her dead boyfriend in this robot until she realizes that it is only a robot. The grieving process is so complex to fully understand. We all wish we had more time with our loved ones. Sometimes we convince ourselves that we only want to see them once more to say our goodbyes. But when given the opportunity, we realize we just want more time with them that we cannot have.
I think that one of episodes that disturbed me the most was the one with this new technology behind your ear that enables you to re-watch everything that you did during the day. It literally records everything you are doing. So when the character thinks his wife is unfaithful, he becomes crazy looking for hints through his records. He asks his wife to play everything her chip has recorded. He becomes completely out of control. And then I was thinking about this technology. Would it be good or bad for us? Imagine that you can re-live everything you did with people who are now dead. Would it be so bad? You lost your grand-parents and you just want to remember how it was like to hear them laugh or to hear them telling some stories. But then, would you really live if you keep looking at the past? Would you really be able to mourn over them? So yeah, at the end of this episode, I was like “would it be really bad to have this technology?” I still did not make up my mind about it.
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I really advise everyone to watch this show. You only have two seasons of three episodes + the episode of Christmas. It is such as fascinating and interesting show. It is not only about new technology but also about people.
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In another episode, a grieving girlfriend buys an artificial replica of her dead boyfriend. A friend tells her that there is a way to communicate with her dead boyfriend. After finding out that she was pregnant, she tried and… It replied. “It” and not “He” because we know – and at the beginning she knows too – that it is only a robot that goes through all their Facebook, Twitter, voicemails and so on, in order to know everything that the couple has been going through and in order to be able to duplicate his voice. How crazy is that! But then, she thinks that her boyfriend is actually not dead. She wants to find her dead boyfriend in this robot until she realizes that it is only a robot. The grieving process is so complex to fully understand. We all wish we had more time with our loved ones. Sometimes we convince ourselves that we only want to see them once more to say our goodbyes. But when given the opportunity, we realize we just want more time with them that we cannot have.
I think that one of episodes that disturbed me the most was the one with this new technology behind your ear that enables you to re-watch everything that you did during the day. It literally records everything you are doing. So when the character thinks his wife is unfaithful, he becomes crazy looking for hints through his records. He asks his wife to play everything her chip has recorded. He becomes completely out of control. And then I was thinking about this technology. Would it be good or bad for us? Imagine that you can re-live everything you did with people who are now dead. Would it be so bad? You lost your grand-parents and you just want to remember how it was like to hear them laugh or to hear them telling some stories. But then, would you really live if you keep looking at the past? Would you really be able to mourn over them? So yeah, at the end of this episode, I was like “would it be really bad to have this technology?” I still did not make up my mind about it.
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I really advise everyone to watch this show. You only have two seasons of three episodes + the episode of Christmas. It is such as fascinating and interesting show. It is not only about new technology but also about people.
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