One of my favorite examples is Black Mirror’s “Fifteen Million Merits”. Read as a prediction of the future, it’s kinda shit. Unremarkable at best. Read as a w

One of my favorite examples is Black Mirror’s “Fifteen Million Merits”. Read as a prediction of the future, it’s kinda shit. Unremarkable at best. Read as a way to show us the time when it came out (roughly now—it’s not so old) from a perspective skewed enough that it might prompt us to re-evaluate our own normal, it’s pretty damn good.