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‘Black Mirror’ showed us a future. Some of it is here now.

‘Black Mirror’ showed us a future. Some of it is here now.

The long-running tech drama always felt as if it took place in a dystopian near future. How much of that future has come to pass?

Since Black Mirror debuted in 2011, the dystopian sci-fi anthology series has taken seeds of nascent technology and expanded them to absurd and disturbing proportions.

In doing so, it has become a commentary on defining issues of the 21st century: surveillance, consumerism, artificial intelligence, social media, data privacy, virtual reality and more. Every episode serves in part as a warning about how technological advancement run rampant will lead us, often willingly, towards a lonely, disorienting and dangerous future.

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