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> Black Mirror often takes little details that we add in software, like a rating system, and takes them to their extreme and logical conclusion. I can't tell i
by eevilspock 10y ago
> Black Mirror often takes little details that we add in software, like a rating system, and takes them to their extreme and logical conclusion.
I can't tell if you're dismissing the logical conclusion as unlikely. The proliferation of ratings systems, from Facebook likes to Tinder swipes to Uber drivers who have to stay above 4.7 just to keep their job, tells me that we're a lot closer to that logical conclusion than you think. And it is far from logical, sane, healthy or kind!
- m_mueller 10y agoyou read that from the word 'extreme'? I don't think 'unlikely' follows at all from that classification. Of course this is subjective, but I'd argue looking at world history, what we deem 'extreme' has shown its face again and again - may actually even be humanity's natural (i.e. lower energy) state that we have to constantly push back against. From the perspective of a person or cabal in power, keeping everyone under control with the threat of extreme physical or psychological violence is probably easier, i.e. lower energy, than to allow a free society. What makes Black Mirror so scary is that it hints at us being on a trajectory to actually make such mass control effective and feasible, through technology.