About the brave new world enclosed in our smartphone! How will it change our future — and how is it changing us today, now? We have collected for you several shows about technology – exciting, fantastic, frightening.
“Black mirror”
Five seasons, 27 regular episodes and one interactive episode about the cyber-info-digital future. The Black Mirror series reflected the expectations and fears that we associate with cutting-edge technology.
Marta, who has lost her fiancé, turns to a company that creates a simulation of his personality based on records in social networks, and reunites with her beloved … in a chat. Lacey lives in a city where the fate of a person depends on his value to society, and now, in order to get promoted, the heroine needs to be a sweetheart with an ex-girlfriend who took her beloved away from her. Cooper is testing a new game, but soon ceases to distinguish the line between what is happening in it and reality …
Screenwriter Charlie Brooker created not a fantastically futuristic, but quite realistic series. We already know about the social rating that the Chinese authorities are about to introduce, and about the bot, which is based on the correspondence and notes of Roman Mazurenko, whose death was not accepted by relatives. Well, about the addiction to video games.
The new that the series broadcasts is not ideas, but feelings. Fear that we are immersed in simulations and do not notice it ourselves
However, the ideas of the series were outlined half a century ago by the philosopher Guy Debord in his work The Society of Spectacles. A dystopia, where a person is dehumanized and changed-replaced by technologies, was born already then, in 1967, in front of Deborah. In it, the media turn authentic dramas into spectacular TV shows, brands replace practical significance with symbolic significance through the screen (do you have a Birkin bag for at least 100 thousand rubles?), and “stars” impose standards of existence on us.
The new that the series broadcasts is not ideas, but feelings. Fear that we are immersed in simulations and do not notice it ourselves. That our intelligence is becoming artificial. That we are no longer responsible for ourselves, although everyone considers himself a reasonable person. True, Black Mirror is just a black fly in the ointment in the honey barrel of our delight in digital convenience. And one more spectacle, alas.
“World of the Wild West”
In Westworld, ordinary people, once in a theme park inhabited by humanoid robots, can fulfill their most secret desires. But one day, androids will abandon the script program that guides their behavior.
CSI: Cyberspace
CSI: Cyberspace is the latest spin-off of the legendary police television franchise. At its center is a special unit that investigates only those crimes that are committed through a computer or smartphone.