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Black Mirror tackles one of the hardest problems about technical: How society changes around it. We spend such a long time talking about the latest cutting edg
by laurieg 10y ago
Black Mirror tackles one of the hardest problems about technical: How society changes around it.
We spend such a long time talking about the latest cutting edge hardware, new algorithms, new problems that can now be solved, but it's too easy to forget that people are part of this system too.
There's a great film from the 60's [1] that talks about the house of the future. It predicts online shopping and other modern appliances easily, however it is completely blind to any social change. The wife is still a housewife, the husband still goes to work and so on.
As we produce more and more new tech I think media such as Black Mirror are a great way to explore some of the more human implications.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4
- madaxe_again 10y agoAnd how our technological evolution is way out of step with our societal evolution. Give a cave man a ray gun, he's still a cave man. We still run to the same hierarchy structures that we developed tens of thousands of years ago - the tribes are just bigger.
- RangerScience 10y ago> How society changes around it. > [a classic old film] is completely blind to any social change. The wife is still a housewife, the husband still goes to work and so on. This is an exceptionally good point.
- abandonliberty 10y agoThat is the standard fallacy when people predict the future. It'll be just like now, but better. Cars will fly. Housemaids will be robots. Computers will talk, but still take up entire rooms. But the future isn't just more or better. It's also different. That's much harder to predict and grasp.