How “Black Mirror” Gets Its Barely Sci-Fi Tech Just Right

Re:How “Black Mirror” Gets Its Barely Sci-Fi Tech Just Right by LurkingPresence on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:11PM (#12876153)

I really didn't like the 'bee' episode because it brushed a frightening ecological disaster under the table so it could have an episode about how mean people are on twitter. Really?

Even if we could construct something like those robot bees, what effect would that have on the surrounding eco-systems? What happens when a bird or a frog eats some little carbon-fiber robot? I feel like they squandered a more interesting premise in order to tell a sillier one.

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Re:How “Black Mirror” Gets Its Barely Sci-Fi Tech Just Right by Torgo on Friday November 04, 2016 @08:50PM (#12877481)

It feels like everybody has pretty much forgotten about, or at least gotten over the emotional impact of the deepwater horizon oil spill despite it being one of the largest manmade ecological disasters in history. brushing it under the rug is probably closer to real life and appropriately uncomfortable when fed back to you as fiction.

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Re:How “Black Mirror” Gets Its Barely Sci-Fi Tech Just Right by riebschlager on Friday November 04, 2016 @07:23PM (#12877067)

Like how Casablanca sweeps World War II under the rug in order to tell a silly love story? Yeah. I totally get that.

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