[Episode 1] Nosedive
Black Technology: Online Scoring System
Technology Index: ★★
Good-looking Index: ☆☆☆
The online scoring system has been widely used. In the scenarios of ordering takeaway, taking a taxi, shopping on Taobao, etc., the final sentence is usually "Dear, please give a good review" as the conclusion. However, the setting in the episode is a bit more extreme. Personal score is like personal credit, which affects everything you do in real life, such as making friends, renting a house, renting a car, booking air tickets, etc. The result is that everyone has an embarrassing fake smile on their faces, so that others can give them a high score; if you have something to do, give someone else's boring circle of friends a like, so that others can give you one in return; and then the high score only Play with those with higher scores, and those with lower scores are left out in the cold. In fact, this has nothing to do with technology. If human society is hypocritical to this level, even if there is no scoring system, it will be finished. Just like you can't take rudeness as your true temperament, you can't take hypocrisy as your politeness. This is a degree that needs to be grasped. If human beings don't even have this wisdom, then just sit back and sink.
[Episode 2] Playtest
Black Technology: Machine Learning and Virtual Reality
Technology Index: ★★★★
Good-looking Index: ☆☆☆☆
AR and VR should be the most popular application technology right now. The most powerful thing in this episode is not the experience of virtual reality, but the ability of machine learning. Artificial intelligence has been said for many years, but it always feels particularly unintelligent in the field of application - you will never understand my sadness, just like the day does not understand the darkness of the night. But the technology developed by the Japanese game company in this episode can quickly understand what the human brain is thinking, and then use VR imaging technology to realize "what is afraid of", and finally succeed in scaring himself to death. I ask you are you afraid? !
[Episode 3] Shut up and Dance
Black Technology: Camera Intrusion
Technology Index: ★
Good-looking Index: ☆
The main technology used in this episode is to attack the webcam of network users and pirately record the behavior of the user in front of the camera. Do you feel weak? ! Years ago, I've seen a lot of people taping their laptop's camera down. The story of this episode is also the weakest in this season. He was threatened because he did shameful wrongs, fell into a quagmire step by step, and did more wrongs. In the end, the secret was revealed to the world, and everyone betrayed their relatives and left. There are not too many stories like this, and there is not much to discuss.
[Episode 4] San Junipero
Black Technology: Cloud Storage Consciousness Immortal
Technology Index: ★★★★★
Good-looking Index: ☆☆☆☆
I think this episode is the most refreshing episode of the season. It's very sci-fi and also very beautiful. After watching it, it makes people think a lot. Immortality sounds like a wonderful thing, if you could choose to perpetuate your consciousness after your physical death, would you do it? In Tolkien's "Silmarillion", the creator first created elves so that they would not age and die; then he created human beings, adding the function of death as a gift to human beings. Time was originally the most cherished thing for creatures of our dimension. Once time becomes infinite, that is, it has no value. Is all the beautiful happiness diluted infinitely? Is there a purpose? Before this technology is born, it is estimated that we still have a few years to consider.
[Episode 5] Men Against Fire
Black Technology: Sensory Control
Technology Index: ★★★★
Good-looking Index: ☆☆
The military implants a system called MASS in the soldiers' bodies to control the soldiers' senses such as sight, hearing, smell, etc., so that they can kill people with DNA defects without carrying any ideological baggage. Isn't this the fascist theory of genocide, this story is not really Black Mirror! Hitler did it by brainwashing only a few decades ago. Does he still need to rely on such advanced technology to do this in the future? ! Although this sensory control technology sounds very sci-fi, the application of such powerful technology is so poor that it feels that human beings are helpless.
[Episode 6] Hated in the Nation
Black Technology: Remote Control Robot Bee
Technology Index: ★★★
Good-looking Index: ☆☆☆☆☆
This episode is particularly zeitgeist and explores the issue of keyboard warriors and cyberbullying. Massacre cyber mobs in real life with remote-controlled robotic bees. While this robotic bee doesn't sound particularly advanced, I enjoyed the story of this episode, very Black Mirror. Posting big-character posters to others, swearing, attacking and cursing, things that ordinary people don't do in real life, have become commonplace on the Internet. How should this disease called "crowd" be treated?
In just a few years, technology can subvert our traditions and behaviors that have been formed over hundreds of thousands of years. So there is really nothing impossible, cherish the low-tech life that is left now, and you may not want to be nostalgic in the future.
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