4 December 2011 nearly two million people in the UK watched the first episode of a TV series that would warn us that digital also had a dark side, that those in Silicon Valley weren’t necessarily benefactors, and that with our bold technological cheer we were acting like Little Red Riding Hood in the woods.
He was called Black Mirror, anticipated novels such as The Dark Valley, and would become the eponymous of everything that could go wrong in the future. By a curious coincidence, the BBC was broadcasting that same evening “A rare interview” with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was then considered a demigod, yet had an audience lower than Black Mirror.
The series was written by Charlie Brooker: “The reason why Black Mirror is called Black Mirror it’s pretty simple: a black mirror is what we see when we look at a smartphone, tablet, computer, or any other screen that is not active at that moment “. It has been said several times that the episodes of Black Mirror have been prophetic, have anticipated the future. Here the Guardian analyzes all the main predictions contained in the series to see if and how they are accomplished. Beyond this count, Andrea Danieli Signorelli wrote that the credit for Black Mirror and another: “We were still imbued and mesmerized by the ultra-optimistic narrative that came from Silicon Valley … when Black Mirror he came to give us a slap in the face, awakening us from the torpor and helping us to interpret what was already happening before our eyes then. Black Mirror it helped us to develop a critical vision of the impact that new technologies have on society ”.
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